halting
IPA: hˈɔɫtɪŋ
noun
- The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
adjective
- Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
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Examples of "halting" in Sentences
- Frona cried, her tongue halting from the disuse of years.
- Anyone who believed in halting the spread of corruption and extremism has lost.
- This means that the vaccine would have had a chance to be effective in halting the very worst of the second wave.
- But he doesn't see the wisdom in halting sales of long-foreclosed homes, which are piling up in this county of 600,000 faster than almost anywhere else in the country.
- The committee succeeded in halting the elections to replace Karam following lawsuits by journalists who were booted out of the union and had charged the LJU council with nepotism, cronyism and illegalities.
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