HALTING in a Sentence
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237 example sentences for HALTING, such as:
1. The car comes to a halt.
2. She walked towards him and then halted.
3. The trial was halted after the first week.
4. They halted at a short distance from the house.
5. Racing was halted for an hour while the track was repaired.
2. She walked towards him and then halted.
3. The trial was halted after the first week.
4. They halted at a short distance from the house.
5. Racing was halted for an hour while the track was repaired.
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Meanings and Examples of HALTING
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halting
a. hesitant; faltering; imperfect or defective
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, Helene turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave to everyone.
2 They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.
3 But not far from Bald Hills he again came out on the road and overtook his regiment at its halting place by the dam of a small pond.
4 The symptoms of disorder that Pierre had noticed at their first halting place after leaving Moscow had now reached the utmost limit.
5 At their yesterday's halting place, feeling chilly by a dying campfire, Pierre had got up and gone to the next one, which was burning better.
6 When the troops reached their night's halting place on the eighth of November, the last day of the Krasnoe battles, it was already growing dusk.
7 A lecturer with motion-pictures of an Andean exploration; excellent pictures and a halting narrative.
8 But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort.
9 Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left.
10 Again the scout and his companions made the circuit of the halting place, each slowly following the other, until they assembled in the center once more, no wiser than when they started.
11 He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels.
12 A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he were dragging or spreading out something on the ground.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
13 Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones's legs.
14 Often when I thought of this I could make no answer or only a very foolish and halting one upon which he used to smile and nod his head twice or thrice.
15 We tear ourselves away, I and Iphitus and Pelias, Iphitus now stricken in age, Pelias halting too under the wound of Ulysses, called forward by the clamour to Priam's house.
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a halting fashion as they grope for the right words.
2 In a halting voice she said that she wished to make a statement.
3 Racing was halted for an hour while the track was repaired.
4 The trial was halted after the first week.
5 Building at the site was halted after human remains were unearthed earlier this month.
6 The development programme has been halted in its tracks by this intervention.
7 Striking workers halted production at the auto plant yesterday.
8 Production has halted at all of the company's factories because of the pay dispute.
9 They halted at a short distance from the house.
10 She walked towards him and then halted.
11 After news of Rupert Murdoch's ambitious move, the company's share value rose rapidly, opening at 37 dollars and 12 cents and going up to 57 dollars and 28 cents before trading was halted by the New York Stock Exchange.
12 The ASX yesterday halted trading for four hours after detecting a technical issue.
13 The court order that banned Chinese mobile maker Xiaomi from selling its phones in India has halted its breakneck expansion into the world's fastest growing major smartphone market and could be just the start of a string of patent challenges.
14 Then the rain came and the red flag went up to signal a halt.
15 The car comes to a halt.