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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."
Never once did my sister or I ever ask him for help that he hesitated, let alone declined, to give.
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.
But, as she hesitated, the rectory door opened.
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.