Example sentences for: hesitation

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

  • 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.

  • I recommended this book without hesitation or reservation.

  • 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 .

  • To drive home his point that inaction, like action, requires justification and bears consequences, Clinton distilled his frame job to a brilliant sound bite: "In dealing with aggressors in the Balkans, hesitation is a license to kill."

  • 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.


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