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Example sentences for "hesitantly"

Lexicographically close words:
hes; hese; hesitance; hesitancy; hesitant; hesitate; hesitated; hesitates; hesitating; hesitatingly
  1. They are only hesitantly and tentatively Macedonians, or Moldovans, or Belarusians, or Kazakhs, or Yugoslavs.

  2. But, as if suddenly aware of it again, she looked up at him and drew hesitantly away.

  3. He went hesitantly toward the door, and pushed it open.

  4. He reached hesitantly toward the beam-gun, quickly thumbed the catch down to the lowest point, which was simple shock.

  5. Billy, who had been silent for the last half mile, hesitantly ventured a suggestion.

  6. You're awfully good and kind," she said, and then began hesitantly on what was bothering her.

  7. I don't quite know, myself, Boone," she said hesitantly at last.

  8. On my word of honour as a gentleman--" His utterance hung hesitantly on that final word.

  9. As the girls entered rather hesitantly the man turned from them abruptly and, lifting the violin that lay upon the rough board table, he began with the utmost gentleness to put it in its case.

  10. Quickly they jumped down, tethered the horses as they had done before on the day when they had first made the acquaintance of this remarkable man, and started rather hesitantly down the path toward the house.

  11. Tom looked hesitantly up into the face of the man who had brought him to fortune's lowest ebb--and who was now yet lower himself.

  12. McGrew swayed hesitantly for a moment on uncertain legs, blinked soddenly a sort of helpless protest, and, turning, staggered up the stairs.

  13. Bobby was about to turn into his own room to absorb his humiliation in secret when Applerod hesitantly stopped him.

  14. Biff stood hesitantly in the door when he found the place occupied only by a brown-haired girl, who was engaged in the quiet, unprofessional occupation of embroidering a shirtwaist pattern.

  15. At the threshold of the room where I had left Weighborne I hesitantly knocked.

  16. I dare say," he hesitantly told me, "I have no moral right to read this.

  17. Hesitantly at first, she began alternating a portion for herself and another for Habrunt, using sea shells for scoops.

  18. Deeply disturbed by all that she had seen, and still pondering the madness of it, Si'Wren hesitantly approached the sobbing mother.

  19. Hesitantly she picked up the shining brush and stared at the flourish of an unintelligible monogram upon the back.

  20. She turned away, her pretty face still bright with humor, and then she turned back hesitantly toward him.

  21. I urged him to share it with me, and though for a time he refused, at last he hesitantly consented.

  22. Before that time, however, Blodgett hesitantly sought me out one night.

  23. My name was called and I hesitantly strode forward, accompanied by my mother, who was actually beckoned to follow.

  24. She smiled at me and hesitantly said, "Well, we're told not to mention this, but sometimes patients say they can taste it and those who have had chemotherapy are psychologically affected by it and want to vomit.

  25. Dubious, and rather self-protective, I hesitantly agreed to accompany her to the local natural food store to see if the owner knew of any promising, no-fail treatments for cancer.

  26. He laid the paper hesitantly on the table, and began to fumble awkwardly with the silver tray.

  27. The Flopper pushed back his chair and stood up hesitantly like a man unexpectedly called upon for an after-dinner speech.

  28. She gave him a daintily gloved hand, exposed a daintily stockinged ankle as she placed her foot a little hesitantly on the wheel, and jumped lightly to the ground.

  29. Then he timidly and hesitantly stuck the first knife that he could get his hands on into his left breast.

  30. Happily and hesitantly Kohn agreed to her suggestion.

  31. Not sure whether it might give offense, he reached hesitantly to touch the scars.

  32. Then the questioning started, hesitantly at first, not touching on anything too significant until Tarlac's quiet manner and responsive answers put the commandos at ease.

  33. As Alan started hesitantly up the endless-seeming street, one of the venders stopped virtually in front of him and looked at him imploringly.

  34. Nine years had passed, almost to the week, since a brash youngster named Alan Donnell had crossed the bridge from the Spacer's Enclave and hesitantly entered the bewildering complexity of York City.

  35. Alan watched in astonishment as Quantrell took two steps hesitantly backward away from the bridge, then a third.

  36. Once more Mittel obeyed--and dropped the book hesitantly on the desk.

  37. Almost hesitantly he unbuckled his seat belt and pulled himself up, balancing with one hand as he reached in the air to grapple drunkenly with the overhead baggage compartment.

  38. She hesitantly stepped onto the decking, then walked out and bent down to test the water.

  39. By this river he stopped, hesitantly he stood at the bank.


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