Sentence examples for in a dither from inspiring English sources

"in a dither" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to being flustered or agitated. For example, "John was in a dither when he realized he had forgotten his passport at home."

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in a dither

adjective

In a state of indecision. Flustered

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The Labour opposition, which is divided on the idea, is kept in a dither.

The studio was in a dither of political correctness mixed with business concerns.

Yet on this afternoon in April 1995, he was in a dither.

But the morning of June 5 found her in a dither anyway.

I am all in a dither, fretting about catching a crab and losing the race for my team.

The previous morning, Kate had been all in a dither, fretting about catching a crab and losing the race for her team.

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He's now being moved to another position by the Hamlet of Springfield (Gov. Pat Quinn) in a dithering act with a soap opera backdrop.

Following control engineering practices, we assume the existence of a biological excitation (dither) within the heart rate control loop that softens the nonlinearity and studied LF-HRV behavior in a dither-embedded model.

For this sake, we model the retinal noise that occurs in these layers by a dither signal.

The Times this morning suggest their man Gove is in a similar dither, "torn between Cameron and Brexit".

He "was a charming mess — extravagantly verbal, always in a flamboyant dither," Wexler wrote in "Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music" (with David Ritz).

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