Hesitated in example sentence

So the Nautilus hove before the entrance to the world's most dangerous strait, a passageway that even the boldest navigators hesitated to clear: the strait that Luis Vaez de Torres faced on returning from the South Seas in Melanesia, the strait in which sloops of war under Captain Dumont d'Urville ran aground in 1840 and nearly miscarried with all hands.

More example sentences with word hesitated

At the beginning, when Anajulina told me, "We would like to start it," I hesitated.

Now, I hesitated to answer her question, and before she even realized why I hesitated, she began to throw the company she worked for under the bus.

But if I sign with a shaking hand, posterity will say, 'He hesitated.'"

And there's been a shift in my thinking over time, in that, if you had asked me at 15 years old, if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh-and-bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second.

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