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. Heath Boackle:

   He hesitated simply because of what's going on in society right now, we have officers walking on eggshells because of how they're scrutinized in the media.

2. Tig Notaro:

   I hesitated to even address any of this, but I think it is only right to defend my work and ideas.

3. David Sundberg:

   With the significantly increased reward, we urge those who may have previously hesitated to contact us – or who may not have realized they had important information – to review the information on our website and come forward with anything relevant, despite the unprecedented volume of data review involved in this case, the FBI and our partners continue to work relentlessly to bring the perpetrator of these dangerous attempted attacks to justice.

4. Elizabeth Smart:

   Wanda Barzee saw me as Wanda Barzee slave. Wanda Barzee called me Wanda Barzee handmaiden and she never hesitated to let her displeasure with me be known, there were times when, yes, absolutely, Wanda Barzee was manipulated by Brian David Mitchell. But she in Wanda Barzee own right abused me as much as Brian David Mitchell did.

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...