To temporize is to avoid making a decision. Here are some sentences.

• We can pass the law if the mayor won't temporize any longer.
• When you temporize, you're just wasting time, so make a decision.
• I will temporize on that decision in order to keep the peace.

Hoping to be asked by someone more popular, she decided to temporize when the new student invited her to the prom, saying she needed her parents' permission before accepting.

While her friend continue to temporize, making excuses to the guards, she escaped through the back door.