Hesitated in example sentence

"Well, captain, what the ancients hesitated to undertake, Mr. de Lesseps is now finishing up; his joining of these two seas will shorten the route from Cadiz to the East Indies by 9,000 kilometers, and he'll soon change Africa into an immense island."

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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