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Example sentences for: hesitated

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

Saddam looked him straight in the eye, hesitated for "long" seconds, and then said, "I only smoke with people in whom I have confidence."
As the camera turned to Milosevic, he hesitated, bumbled, and then yelled, "Nobody has the right to beat these people!"
And while he does not share Soros' ambition to be seen as a sort of philosopher-speculator, his prominence does constitute a sort of bully pulpit--with the operative word perhaps being "bully"--from which he has not hesitated to lecture nations on their failings.
While the plaza’s architect Boris Zerafa is a gifted “local boy,” Toronto’s other banks have not hesitated to bring in talents of international renown.
But, as she hesitated, the rectory door opened.