halting

How To Use halting In A Sentence

• Quiet and intense, he speaks in a halting manner, sometimes garbles his sentences and lacks a smooth personal touch. Minn. governor fights GOP on taxes for wealthy
• `When the guest room's fixed up, I'd like to invite Howard and Karin to stay," she said, halting to pick up a cowrie shell. OUT OF THE ASHES
• After some halting conversation, concerned mainly with the difficulties of the day, Orpishurda produced a bottle. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
• NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin is halting a push to revamp New Orleans 'approach to retaining and attracting businesses, citing a lack of diversity on the board that would guide the effort, posturing for control and what he called a minimal funding commitment by the private sector. Undefined
• His speech is staggered and halting, hers an energetic staccato.
• The English Renaissance, begun haltingly under Queen Elizabeth, reborn under Inigo Jones but repressed during the interregnum, now found its feet. British architecture: the baroque in Britain
• But since then, progress in the peace process had been halting.
• At every halting place the natives capered before them and tabored a welcome, while at Kama, where Gelele was staying, they not only played, but burst out with an extemporaneous couplet in Burton's honour: The Life of Sir Richard Burton
• We had a predictably halting start, but there were no shockers or disasters.
• Pundits say that the timing of the National Stabilization Fund share disposal is the key to halting further losses.