Sentence examples for a hesitant step from inspiring English sources

This is a hesitant step down the road to English devolution.

Mr. Obama had distanced himself slowly, a hesitant step here and there, from his church.

"He turned once, took a hesitant step and as if some spring in the mechanism had broken, circled again.... " 'He frightens me,' said Hazel.

But the history of negotiations with North Korea is that every step forward is followed by a hesitant step back, as the North's leadership debates how much it can afford to expose its people to influences from South Korea and the West.

Nurse Ames takes a hesitant step forward.

He makes his entrance, in silence, down a wrought-iron staircase (of course this joint is below street level), with a tired and hesitant step.

She took a few hesitant steps down the sidewalk, waving at the girls, as if waving could pull them back, could make them unafraid.

This is the situation in much of Africa and remote parts of China, which last month took a few hesitant steps to liberalise its rural land markets.

But the Affordable Care Act, which could be seen as a hesitant first step toward a single-payer system, "is a disaster".

France's painful efforts to come to terms with the atrocities in its recent colonial history will take another hesitant step forward today with the official – or semi-official – admission that police murdered up to 200 Algerian demonstrators in Paris 40 years ago.

"Miss?" Lorvane took a few small, hesitant steps toward Danielle.