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haltingly

[ US /ˈhɔɫtɪŋɫi/ ]
[ UK /hˈɒltɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a halting manner
    he spoke haltingly

How To Use haltingly In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Still, let's give Mr. Cameron and his Chancellor their due: They are haltingly coming to grips with the fact that the universal entitlement state has become unaffordable. Welfare and Class Warfare in Britain
  • Mr. Satterthwaite floundered wildly in Italian interspersed with German -- the nearest he could get in the hurry of the moment to Spanish - He was desolated and ashamed, he explained haltingly. Autumn Maze
  • It is also caught between the worst of two political systems: a corrupt, crippled and haltingly reactive Russian Federation and carpet-bagging capitalism.
  • The ideals of liberty and self - determination , equality and the rule of law have haltingly advanced.
  • he spoke haltingly
  • Speech returned, haltingly, in two guises: information from the inferno and pieties from the government.
  • A pattern can now be discerned whereby we are lurching haltingly in the right direction but personally, I would prefer our arrival at a better alternative much earlier than later.
  • A little coy now, Alicia sat down on the edge of her mother's bed and began haltingly, ‘Well… we had mulligatawny soup to start with, veal cutlets and leeks au gratin as a main course, Baked Alaska for dessert, followed by coffee.
  • To walk or move along haltingly or with difficulty; limp.
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