How to Use prevaricate in a Sentence

prevaricate

verb

• Government officials prevaricated about the real costs of the project.
• Chinese state media have prevaricated on the prospects of an oil ban.
  — Jonathan Kaiman, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• When an administration prevaricates on climate change, the effects won’t be felt for years, and even then will be hard to parse.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2020
• Anna hemmed and hawed and dissembled and prevaricated and, as the women got increasingly angry, allowed two fat tears to roll down her cheeks.
  — Jessica Pressler, The Cut, 28 May 2018
• There was a sense that the people in charge of the operation were incompetent or, worse, deliberately prevaricating.
  — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
• Until disclosures are made mandatory, companies are likely to prevaricate.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2019
• But this is the present Congress with the present Republican majorities running things, so Junior walked away to prevaricate another day.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Dec. 2017
• Every transfer situation is unique, and, on this particular occasion, why not just pay up instead of needlessly prevaricating?
  — SI.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• That’s a phrase used for President Lyndon Johnson prevaricating on the Vietnam War.
  — John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 June 2026
• Until the American public, whom doctors are well placed to inform, steps into this debate to demand action, Congress will continue to prevaricate.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz India, 19 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, Mohamed Nasheed, the former president whose conviction has now been quashed, prevaricated about returning from exile in Sri Lanka.
  — The Economist, 2 Feb. 2018
• Instead, the White House spent weeks prevaricating on an executive order that rests on the voluntary cooperation of the AI industry.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026