Synonyms for hesitated
hes·i·tat·ed

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1. stuttered

   when someone starts to talk, but then words don’t come out as neatly, which is stuttering.

   she started to stutter when the teacher asked her a question.

   Submitted by lilylovesdixie on August 22, 2020  

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1. List of paraphrases for "hesitated":

   flinched, faltered, paused

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How to use hesitated in a sentence?

1. Catherine Frazier:

   The senator hasn't hesitated to shine a line on Washington's failures since arriving in Washington.

2. Pete Arredondo:

   Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children, we responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced. Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat.

3. Mayor Pete:

   One of the reasons we're communicating upfront right now is because of lessons learned from members of the community, we've had prior cases of use of force incidents and officer involved shootings where I hesitated, frankly, to get in front of cameras because we didn't know very much, and it was out of our hands.

4. Jamie Summitt:

   I hesitated to share this for obvious reasons of how personal this is but I can’t imagine any of my friends having to go through this.

5. CJ Thomas:

   He'd hesitated in sharing them (his life struggles), telling me that they far from measured up against what I'd dealt with, but I'd assured him that to each of us, our challenges are struggles, real to us without comparison to what anyone else is going through...that through our own lenses, life looks shitty sometimes and we think we'll bend under the weight of it...