haltingly

Example Sentences

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Haltingly, they led Mohammad up the path to the family home.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024

Haltingly, he recalled watching a newscaster interview a Pakistani man whose two children had died in a 2015 heat wave.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2021

Haltingly, Newsom began to tell Silbert about the residue of his childhood.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

Haltingly admitting her mom is among my heroes, I asked a question that long haunted me:

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2017

Haltingly, I told her what had happened—that is, I told her the story the cops had settled on and that, after a great deal of counseling, I, too, had come to believe.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs