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Example sentences for: hesitate

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Republicans hesitate to dump Newt Gingrich because his potential successors would be worse, argues the cover story, "The Men Who Would Be Newt."
"A mistake," he didn't hesitate to reply.
In a field intent on claiming objective, "scientific" status, he didn't hesitate to admit that doctrinaire ideas shifted, conflicted, and could be disorienting.
Rather did not return a phone call from the Times . By the way, journalists who don't return phone calls from the press are precisely the sorts who don't hesitate to manipulate content--it's all part of the belief that the rules they constantly apply to others don't apply to themselves.
I hesitate to use the word "offbeat," which has come to describe a metronomical quirkiness that's as predictable as anything on the beat, but here the surreal touches are sprung without overture, like frogs that just happen to be hopping across the screen.