temporize
temporise BrE

I temporized, trying to figure out what he was really up to.

Others temporized to see whether the hurricane would actually head toward them.

"One does not usually give the subject the results," he temporized.

He was too terrified to try to temporize with more talk.

"They did not tell me of this," the man temporized.

Others might cling to the need to temporize, but not he.

"We must have at least one to make it back to the forests," he temporized.

"We're in no position to temporize," the city manager was saying.

"Well," he temporized, "I was up at the break of day, and running from the time my feet hit the ground."

"I hope you worked hard and learned something:" Anna temporized.

But it temporized for weeks and then rejected any concessions.

So she temporized, trying to buy time to think.

What she was after, she would get, however much he might temporize.

"Well, if you still feel that way, after this one," I temporized.

"But I hate to think of you all battered up," she temporized.

"It would have to go to the full Council of priests," he temporized.

"If you do not mind, perhaps let us leave it awhile longer," he said, temporizing.

"Let's see if we can schedule that evening together," he temporized.

Wilson held his position, saying that giving in "would be to temporize with evil".

"It is only a vague feeling on my part," Martin temporized.

He had no time to explain or to temporize.

"Depends on what you and this army of yours can do," she temporized.

He decided instead that the safest way to handle this situation was to temporize.

"Depends on what you call living," I temporized, trying with little success to get out of the tub.

Now, instead of temporizing, he called Princess, got into the car, and drove in that direction.

They desired to temporise until their leader came.

He hit hard overspin drives, and there was no way you could ever get him to temporise on important points."

I could temporise.

As for King Louis, he will swallow his injuries; will temporise, keep silence; will at all costs have present peace.

Napoleon wished to temporise until his preparations were a little more advanced, but the pourparlers henceforth had little real significance.

Swiftly I determined to temporise, which I did by asking Ayesha whether she would accompany me upon this eerie expedition.

Mrs Dombey is informed that it does not become me to temporise or treat upon any matter that is at issue between us, and that what I say is final.'

Ironically, the aggressive Essex - an equally ill-fated hero of the people - also came to temporise with Tyrone, and it was Norreys' original notion that eventually succeeded under the generalship of Mountjoy.

Ó Ruairc immediately complained of harassment by the new president in the spring and summer of that year, and in September Bingham was ordered by his superior in Dublin Castle to temporise and refrain from making expeditions into Bréifne.