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Example sentences for "haltingly"

Lexicographically close words:
halter; haltered; haltering; halters; halting; halts; halve; halved; halves; halving
  1. She had told the story of the night, haltingly but with a graphic integrity that left nothing to be desired.

  2. It had been delivered haltingly and with visible signs of embarrassment at times, but it was a straightforward, honest recital of facts.

  3. She glanced pitifully at him once more and then haltingly told her story.

  4. Seeking Nippers, I came upon him haltingly reading my diary aloud to an amused circle of cattlemen, in his quarters aft.

  5. One morning Hildreth timidly and haltingly proposed returning to her mother's flat in New York.

  6. They both laughed with young condescension for the old-fashioned and then Turner went on, haltingly by reason of callow diffidence.

  7. Nagsangkayud paglakaw ang babáying nagbatì, The woman who was in labor walked haltingly with a thrust of the abdomen.

  8. Maáyu nga dílì ta musangù ug mudiskursu ta, Better not to speak haltingly in giving a speech.

  9. A couple of small headlights veered around a curve in the road and came down the slight grade, followed naturally and somewhat haltingly by an automobile whose timorous brakes were half set.

  10. Haltingly the Marshal edged his way toward the tree.

  11. Once he had broached the matter haltingly to an influential acquaintance.

  12. Very haltingly the frog swam to land and crouched at her feet, and, before he knew where he was, she had stooped and kissed him.

  13. Thibaudeau, Boulay, and Roederer haltingly expressed their fears that all the 130 might not be guilty of the recent outrage, and that the Council had no powers to decide on the proscription of individuals.

  14. While Joseph and Jourdan were haltingly mustering their forces in Leon, the allies began that series of rapid flanking movements on the north which decided the campaign.

  15. He stared doubtfully, rose, haltingly crossed the room, and laid his fingers upon the bell.

  16. His eyes followed the train till it disappeared, then he turned, and went haltingly out of the station, back to the empty motor.

  17. He rose to his feet with a glad cry of welcome, albeit haltingly articulated.

  18. No," was the reply, haltingly given between groans.

  19. Fenton addressed him eagerly in French, haltingly in German and finally in English.

  20. Slowly and haltingly the priest told him of the happenings that had so upset the usually placid village.

  21. Haltingly she advances, swaying above the upturned faces and the shuffling feet.

  22. And so looking out into the starlight, haltingly at first, Hertha told the story of her eight months' absence.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haltingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deliberately; easily; fitfully; gently; haltingly; intermittently; irregularly; jerkily; leisurely; moderately; reluctantly; roughly; slow; slowly; spasmodically; sporadically; unevenly; variably