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Example sentences for: hesitation

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

Economists, after a few decades of hesitation, picked it up in the '80s and made it a cornerstone of their discipline.
Some contributors to learned journals of his day frequently submitted their suggestions with a hesitation born of the fear of being flayed alive by the scholar in a contemptuous retort to be published in a later issue.
Alternatively, the hesitation may also highlight residents' discomfort with managing patients who may be dying.
President John Kennedy attacked Diefenbaker’s hesitation and prevarication, and the Prime Minister was defeated at the next election, after the Canadian Liberals had jumped on the American bandwagon.
A millennium later when I asked a nearby resident about the land marker, although he had not seen it, he without hesitation called it a merestone .