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falteringly
adverb
In a faltering manner
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"Let's each sing a song from our homeland!" suggested Roland, the Dutchman, so Seán falteringly started to sing an Irish lament and Celine followed with a Spanish ditty.
"So am I not a serious-looking person?" Lisa asks falteringly.
But then the old man in the robe turns falteringly around to reveal a brown blot just below his backside.
He looks at them and starts singing, falteringly at first, as he searches for the tune.
But now she says, falteringly: 'I can't discuss it.
Even the late Sir Keith Joseph, one of Margaret Thatcher's favourite intellectuals, was ultimately talked out of trying vouchers by his civil servants when he was secretary of state for education.But in the United States, the voucher system has taken wing albeit falteringly.
The only people are National Guard companies at the intersections, guns at the ready and, on St Charles Avenue, one lone jogger, running on the streetcar tracks.Slowly, falteringly and much too late, America began to respond this week to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
If you don't fancy cheesecake, Zebra chocolate cake or Napoleon Cake ("it's layers of pastry," explained the plausible waiter, falteringly, "layered with, er, cream and with, on top, er, breadcrumbs"), you were stuck with ice-cream, which was perfectly OK.
Obama's America — one that progresses, however falteringly, toward social justice, tolerance, and equality — represents the future that this country deserves.
Addressing Penelope through a microphone, Fitz begins falteringly, but then he finds his groove.
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White-haired, with piercing pale blue eyes and strong features in a wide oval face, she walks stiffly and talks falteringly.
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