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"I'm afraid," he says hesitantly, "I forgot that today is our anniversary."
She approached the teacher hesitantly.
I agree that these policies are evolving too slowly, too hesitantly—in fact, in some cases without observable evolvement at all.
It is true that one takes such powers only warily and hesitantly.
I say that hesitantly in the context of the local government review.
I believe that a number of people supported nationalisation hesitantly, doubtfully, because they believed that nationalisation was necessary for supervision.
However, it does so hesitantly, for understandable reasons.
In the last few months he has begun hesitantly to lisp the language of reconciliation.
It is a commonplace to say, but it is not true, that trade followed the flag; rather, the flag followed hesitantly after the trader.
Even then, it expressed itself hesitantly.