Verb (used without object), : She hesitated to take the job. ,He hesitated to break the law. ,I hesitated before reciting the next line. ,Embarrassment caused the speaker to hesitate.    From Dictionary.com. 

The experience of not hesitating is what I believe required the formation of Model Muggers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls] Reference

"Different things," said Ellen, hesitating from the remembrance of her aunt's manner the night before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wide, Wide World] Reference

So taking the creationist line or hesitating is a very understandable reaction for a practical politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Evolution] Reference

But lately I read some things, "hesitating, --" the first books.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

Still, imagine that small hand lifting the pencil" hesitating" and then marking the white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duma Key]

A kind of hesitating, jockeying for position goes on that results in one person going first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hair and freedom, then and now] Reference

Mr. Redlaw, "hesitating," I believe I know that history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain] Reference

He said, kind of hesitating, "I'm not afraid of haunted houses.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike] Reference

I have the Poetry Reading kit, but I'm kind of hesitating with scheduling it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference

"I was only kind of hesitating," Mr. Fischer went on, leaning back once more in his chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pawns Count] Reference

A contrariety of events in the past may give us a kind of hesitating belief for the future after two several ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference

Artois felt something of her agitation, perhaps, for he said, with a kind of hesitating diffidence, very rare in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spirit in Prison] Reference

“He said he was afraid not; and then, kind of hesitating, he offered to go and buy me some.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Lazy Burglar]

She shook her head; I saw that she was hesitating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Some are hesitating, hoping for higher prices in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worries Over Tax Hikes Coloring Business Decisions] Reference

More optimistic Afghans who want to vote are also hesitating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghan Voters Head To Polls Amid Threats, Fraud] Reference

"No." was the somewhat hesitating answer of the young inventor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference

"Sure there ain't anybody 'round?" asked the other, hesitating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference

Bob asked hesitating, as he used her new title for the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasure] Reference

"I do not know where he lives," said the lad, hesitating, and drawing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

"Monseigneur gives audience to some one," said the captain, hesitating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

You can not certainly accuse me of having been hesitating this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Dave noticed as the man spoke that it was in a hesitating, evasive way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference

     “Well maybe I'll show you something else,” I said, hesitating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loose Lips Sink Ships] Reference

"And," replied Maurice, in a hesitating manner, "were all the family well?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And buyers are hesitating because they think home prices haven't bottomed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existing Homes Sales PLUNGE To 15-Year Low] Reference

There was so evidently genuine pain and emotion behind the hesitating apology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

"Yes -- yes, I think I did, sir," answered the machinist, in a hesitating voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference

Simpson, hesitating ever so slightly, answered: "" That's absolutely not true. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking His Stand] Reference

At the same time, executives aren't hesitating to wield the ax on underperformers.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Good As It Gets?] Reference

He fancied that he saw her enter, closely veiled, hesitating, a little embarrassed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Still, if Madame Desvarennes were not the woman you think her --" Then, hesitating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

For 10 years it had been hesitating, standing at the edge of the cliff afraid to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Consensus For Change] Reference

With a blush and a hesitating smile she said, "And he said that same thing, you know!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference

"Is -- er -- Miss Cora Kimball here?" asked one of them, in rather a hesitating voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

Many are hesitating and halting between this view and the one that has so widely prevailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

When it was over, Prix Laroux turned back to the deserted factory and stood hesitating on its step.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference