Example sentences for: halting

How can you use “halting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Besides his halting tone, that shot of him at an unusually wide table with a feeble Christmas tree behind him added to the whole Madame Tussaud effect.

  • People think I'm kidding when I say that my favorite film is The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but I can't imagine how I'd have survived an especially grisly puberty without the comfort of watching Boris Karloff express his anguish to an uncomprehending world through a misshapen body and halting language.

  • That was the perplexed comment that greeted my first halting efforts to explain the Clinton scandal to my children, ages 6 and 9. I promptly began quoting the profundity to my friends and reflecting indignantly, along with the rest of America, on what a poor role model the overgrown youth in the White House is for our youth.

  • Record crowds attended the controversial show, which Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had tried to block by halting checks to the museum and filing suit for lease violations.

  • Segodnya reported that Dagestan is on the edge of civil war and that the halting of ruble-dollar trading on the financial markets means that Russia is facing the threat of a return to a fixed ruble-dollar exchange rate, as in Soviet times.


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