Hesitated in example sentence

The peddler looked from the window, and saw with dismay that the evening was fast advancing, and knew well that he endangered his life by remaining in the dwelling after dark; yet he could not tolerate the idea of being defrauded in this manner, in a bargain that had already been fairly made; he hesitated.

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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