Hesitated in sentence

201 examples of Hesitated in a sentence

At first he hesitated, half afraid.

They hesitated.

And as his wife hesitated:"You know I don't like injustice.

He hesitated at first: was it indeed she, that young girl in the coarse blue dress, with that bonnet?

Especially consumed by the need of knowledge, he had long hesitated to borrow books from his neighbour, who unfortunately had hardly any but German and Russian works.

When he got outside he hesitated, then he went into the neighbours' to see if Levaque was ready.

The others began to laugh, and hesitated.

When the footman came back, he seemed about to speak, then he hesitated.

So he still hesitated, not knowing what to reply.

And as he hesitated:"Then you're still afraid of me?"

Catherine, who had already taken off her jacket, hesitated, then took off her trousers also; and with naked arms and naked thighs, her chemise tied round her hips by a cord like a blouse, she began to push again.

After this, he no longer hesitated, but sent off telegrams on all sides--to the prefect of Lille, to the corps of soldiery at Douai, to the police at Marchiennes.

And in terror before the threatening catastrophe, he no longer hesitated, but gave the order to go up, sending captains to warn the men in their stalls.

He himself hesitated, however, not knowing where to turn.

In his anxiety he yet hesitated to wake her.

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.

I hesitated to speak my mind.

"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."

I hesitated to interrupt him.

He got up, but before going hesitated.

They advanced towards each other; he held out his hand; she hesitated.

"For, after all," she went on, "you are free—" she hesitated, "rich—""Do not mock me," he replied.

She hesitated before calling to a waiter for coffee, realising that on the arrival of the said waiter her private conversation with Julien would be at an end.

He hesitated no longer; the fear of remorse gave him complete command of himself; he added coldly as he rose to his feet:'Yes, Madame, I leave you for ever, may you be happy; farewell.'

That evening, Julien hesitated for long before entering the playhouse; he had strange ideas as to that sink of iniquity.

'In thy time, great man, should I have hesitated?

The painter even seemed to misunderstand why K. remained at the edge of the bed and urged K. to make himself comfortable, and as he hesitated he went over to the bed himself and pressed K. deep down into the bedclothes and pillows.

K. still hesitated.

There was an evident desire on the part of the host to enter into conversation, but either from an apprehension of treading on dangerous ground, or an unwillingness to intrude upon the rather studied taciturnity of his guest, he several times hesitated, before he could venture to make any further remark.

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