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Example sentences for "hesitancy"

Lexicographically close words:
heryng; herzlich; hes; hese; hesitance; hesitant; hesitantly; hesitate; hesitated; hesitates
  1. The least hesitancy on your part to the Southerd, and the matter is over.

  2. It is fair to say that the hesitancy of some was offset by the heroism of others.

  3. I have no hesitancy in proclaiming that this brutality is a legacy left us by slavery, against which we have to contend, making itself felt in the organized mob and in disregard of constituted authority.

  4. Once inside, a sudden feeling of awe and hesitancy overwhelmed Diana.

  5. The Colonel, noticing my hesitancy as these thoughts passed through my brain and no doubt mistaking its true import, relieved me by saying: "You had better go along over to Colonel Jones and be registered, if you have not already done so.

  6. I was gathering information; and, feeling secure through my supposed sympathy with Mr. Brownlow, I had not the least hesitancy about meeting him personally; I did not consider the family failings at all.

  7. I felt no hesitancy in opening this, and ascertaining its contents.

  8. I judged from the sound that he seated himself before answering, and there was a hesitancy sufficiently noticeable, so as to cause the girl to ask anxiously: "He has not been injured?

  9. I have no hesitancy in giving you their names, so you may question them privately.

  10. But, observing that his companions had already entered the vestibule, he overcame his hesitancy and followed them within.

  11. And as they charged, the foemen’s lines seemed so dense, their ships so tall, their power so vast, that involuntarily hesitancy came over the Greeks.

  12. But why, we may be permitted to enquire, this shyness and hesitancy in the scriptures in communicating such cardinal truths?

  13. He owed his escape to the hesitancy of his opponents and his own mobility.

  14. They understand what that purpose is and they have no hesitancy about "delivering the goods.

  15. The guards act on the principle that they must strike first if they are to strike at all, and evidence shows that they have not the slightest hesitancy about striking first.

  16. I want to look at some business suits," began Theodore, addressing the foremost of them, with a slight touch of hesitancy and embarrassment.

  17. Professor Groos thinks that the sexual hesitancy of the female is of advantage to the species, as preventing "too early and too frequent yielding to the sexual impulse" (loc.

  18. The appeal made during a religious revival to an unconverted person has psychologically some resemblance to the attempt of the male to overcome the hesitancy of the female.

  19. In either case, the minimum that it is necessary to assume is an organic hesitancy, though in the case of woman social hesitancy may play even the greater rôle.

  20. No man or woman, whether clothed upon with virtue or steeped in vice, ever reached forth a hand to John Baronet and saw in his face any shadow of hesitancy to receive it.

  21. With the thought of them, this hesitancy on the part of Judge Baronet brought a chill that made her shiver.

  22. I felt a slight embarrassment as to my own presence in the room, but I also felt a hesitancy about returning to the drawing-room until the doctors should have reached a decision.

  23. In one way, it seemed a dreadful thing to be poking round among a man's personal belongings; but again, since the cause of justice demanded it, I felt no hesitancy in doing so.

  24. We have no hesitancy in pronouncing this powerful story one of the most impressive studies of our highly nervous American life that has been published in a long while.

  25. Upton insisted that he should keep guard, Hal decided to go with Alec, and Sparrer with a little hesitancy confessed that he would like to hunt rabbits.

  26. Vladimir Mellikoff saw her hesitancy and read its meaning.

  27. His measures to meet the case were thorough and deliberate, as well as rapid; no time was lost either by hesitancy or delay, nor by the yet more facile error of too precipitate movement.

  28. Yet his hesitancy was indeed difficult to explain, and because it seemed to Harley that the cloud which had stolen out across the house of Sir Charles Abingdon now hung threateningly over those very chambers, he merely waited and wondered.

  29. There was at times even a curious hesitancy in her speech, which came near being a stammer, or suggested the measured care with which people speak who have been cured of stammering.

  30. Hesitancy like this, doubts, uncertainty as to her impressions, were not characteristic of Ramona.

  31. She glanced about into the gloom of the surrounding woods, her hesitancy answering me.

  32. Ever since my boyhood I had listened to stories concerning the operation of Underground Railroads by means of which slaves were assisted to freedom, and now felt no hesitancy in confiding these two women to the care of their operators.

  33. Other causes of hesitancy to set forth the full truth there may have been, but these two were undeniably there.

  34. Wearisome as these details are, they at least bring once more into relief the hesitancy which characterises every action of the Government till the powder is actually discovered.

  35. Happily, however, there proved to be no reason for Ivan's hesitancy over the invitation of Wagner's remarkable wife.


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