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How to use dither in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb, noun

Dither means to tremble, shake, or shiver. Example: “I was all of a dither when he asked me to marry him.”

Examples of dither by meaning

verbTo tremble, shake, or shiver.

  • Presently he came running out of the scullery, with the soapy water dripping from him, dithering with cold.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

verbTo use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.

  • You almost don't even notice the dithering when driving by quick.2023, Preston "Pretzel", 4:34 from the start, in Familiar and Unfamiliar Areas in Lego Island

nounA state of nervous excitement.

  • Everyone was in a dither; either in it or about to get in it or just climbing out of it.2002, Thomas P. Glynn, A Child's Christmas In Chicago, page 59

More sentences with dither

  • I was all of a dither when he asked me to marry him.From the entry all of
  • It is a picture of dither, delay, unrealistic costings - and Department for Transport indecisiveness.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3. From the entry indecisiveness
  • This sort of a conversion gives a very dithered look to the picture.1995, Walter Schertler, Beat Schmid, Hannes Werthner, Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, page 154. From the entry dithered
  • 'T was a-quaking i' the ruin o' the owd mill, dithering and dathering glowersome like.1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty: A Romance, Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 87. From the entry glowersome
  • Fumfering – a word we get from Yiddish – means to mumble, mutter, murmur, dither, waffle, be evasive, temporize and stall.2022 April 29, Alon Pinkas, “Israel’s Ukraine Policy Isn't Only Immoral. It's Also Unwise”, in Haaretz, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry fumfer
  • “It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship.2017, J. C. Staudt, Children of the Wastes. From the entry maniac
  • Even on older hardware, the dithering is perfect.2007, milkfilk@gmail.com, “Why are shadebobs and 2d alpha blends so convincing?”, in comp.graphics.api.opengl (Usenet). From the entry shadebob
  • You think I am dithering you?2012, John C. Wright, The Hermetic Millennia, →ISBN, page 270. From the entry flummoxery
  • His dobber's no sure about it either, and the two of them dither there for a while, waiting for something to happen, a connection.2011 July 7, Ross Raisin, Waterline, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry dobber
  • And while people are dithering, the cloning research in the private biotech industries will put facts on the ground that will be difficult to challenge.2002 July, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, Washington, D.C.: President's Council on Bioethics, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry put facts on the ground
  • While you're responding to the dithering confusing Lynda is causing in the bus depot, you're absorbing the emotions between mother and child.1980, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker. From the entry moonbeam
  • Then he dithered and fannied about.1977, Jon Fleming et al., Soldiers on Everest, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, page 97. From the entry fanny about
  • We illustrate some serious inherent limitations of dropout and demonstrate that dither provides a far more effective regulariser which does not suffer from the same limitations.2015, Andrew J.R. Simpson, “Dither is Better than Dropout for Regularising Deep Neural Networks”, in arXiv. From the entry regulariser
  • Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.2001, Larry Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, →ISBN. From the entry gender-vague
  • Still the executive dithered: spent another week with pieces of paper on which he would list, in columns headed “pro” and “con,” reasons for and against taking his Brody.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry brody

Meaning of dither

  1. verb To tremble, shake, or shiver.
  2. verb To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
  3. verb To do something nervously.

Full definition of dither

Questions about dither in a sentence

How do you use dither in a sentence?
Dither is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I was all of a dither when he asked me to marry him.”
What is a short sentence with dither?
“Then he dithered and fannied about.”
What does dither mean?
Dither means to tremble, shake, or shiver.

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