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Example sentences for "hesitatingly"

Lexicographically close words:
hesitantly; hesitate; hesitated; hesitates; hesitating; hesitation; hesitations; hesna; hest; heste
  1. Abner grasped the back of the bench in front of him and pulled himself up, only to sink back hesitatingly into his seat.

  2. The old man stared hesitatingly for an instant, and then, after carefully feeling of the stone, he complied.

  3. Slowly he approaches the table, gazes hesitatingly first backward, then toward the window, finally puts the candlestick on the table and sits down by the window.

  4. He shook hands with her, moved hesitatingly toward the door.

  5. Hesitatingly she laid a hand upon his arm, but there was no loving-kindness in his look.

  6. For some moments he held the slipper hesitatingly in his hand, then he opened his trunk, and disposing various articles around it as if it were some fragile, perishable object, laid it carefully therein.

  7. He had risen, and yet hesitatingly kept his hand on the back of his chair.

  8. Aunt Sally was making pies in the kitchen the next morning when Jeff hesitatingly stole upon her.

  9. Struggling between a certain fascination at the girl's cold-blooded curiosity and horror of the murdered man, Cass hesitatingly lifted the helpless head.

  10. Cass stared, and then moved hesitatingly toward her.

  11. At last she gave in and hesitatingly whispered: "Let me see it.

  12. Max hesitatingly took the dagger and looked with a puzzled expression from it to the duke's face.

  13. He hesitatingly drew it from his finger and placed it in the girl's hand.

  14. Johannes hesitatingly considered whether or not he should do as Markus had done, and answer no questions whatever.

  15. The sexton bristled, and the officers hesitatingly prepared themselves for a struggle.

  16. With his black, dirty little hands he cautiously and hesitatingly touched the boy's clothes that Marjon was wearing.

  17. He hesitatingly answered, "I think it is the Juno, mum.

  18. She stopped and hesitatingly said that she was going to send for Temperance; she wanted her while Mr. Somers stayed.

  19. Truth compels me to say that he overshot the mark: he kept on hesitatingly along the highway.

  20. Just over the line of stone wall in the orchard a woodchuck comes hesitatingly out of his hole and goes nibbling in the grass not fifty feet away.

  21. When the idea did knock at the door of her mind hesitatingly as Peter junior used to knock at the dryad door, the Hands' advertisement for help was the last of its kind in the papers.

  22. He perched hesitatingly on the arm of an adipose easy chair, not having been specifically invited to sit.

  23. He hesitatingly opened the back-parlor door with a consciousness of committing some unreasonable trespass, and entered.

  24. He looked at me hesitatingly a moment, then read it aloud: "I promised you freedom.

  25. I've got my flask in my pocket," he said hesitatingly to Gaunt, who nodded and held out his hand.

  26. While hesitatingly examining the entrance a sea struck him.

  27. They haven't been riding all their lives for nothing," Jondo agreed, as Esmond Clarenden turned hesitatingly toward Mat Nivers.

  28. It ain't that," said the stranger, moving hesitatingly in his chair.

  29. The tall figure of the man wavered hesitatingly for a moment, and then vanished also.

  30. He offered Else his arm; hesitatingly she rested the tips of her fingers upon it.

  31. The government commissioners were loud in their praise of the dikegrave, soon drowning the doubts that the local commissioners now and then hesitatingly uttered.

  32. But Roese hesitatingly and in humble tones said: "Will the Herr Lieutenant permit me to make a respectful request?

  33. Frau Weil hesitatingly took the slip of paper from his hands and read: "Am expecting you to-day at 4.

  34. She moved hesitatingly towards the passage and stopped.

  35. The figure came hesitatingly forward into the light of the grated window.

  36. Hesitatingly the man looked back and then dropped his eyes.

  37. Dad answered hesitatingly and Beck scraped one foot on the floor.

  38. Ann, all unconscious of his presence, opened the door; she paused, hesitatingly silent.

  39. And I think, dear," he hesitatingly proceeded, "we would better not speak of this.

  40. On such a day as to-day I never doubt it; and I picked one as reverently and hesitatingly as I would ask the Queen of the Fairies home to tea if I met her in a wood.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hesitatingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.