Example Sentences

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Didi falteringly answers, “Tell him . . . tell him you saw us.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025

Morris replies, falteringly, “I think that Jeffrey’s account is suspect. It really seems internally inconsistent and not entirely believable. Do I believe that means there were no intruders in the house? Maybe.”

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2020

He coordinated Ali’s poignant appearance at the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Games in Atlanta in 1996, when Ali falteringly lifted a torch to light the Olympic flame.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2016

Perhaps we are about to see how ideas of due process grew into ideas of rights and liberty, which then, however haltingly or falteringly, made their way into the present.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2013

“Please don’t,” she said falteringly, with a catch so suggestive of repressed emotion in her tones that he repented the ill-nature of his words.

From The Stronger Influence by Young, F.E. Mills