Sentence examples for halting as from inspiring English sources

And in his chats with Mr. Funes, halting as they are, he has learned some more specific reasons.

Ah Ling's narration is stiff and halting as he begins to understand the nuances of American speech.

Here the Brownian sense of an impulse traveling the body was evident, but clotted, blocked, as halting as the voice that accompanied the motion.

Few are ready to say that the recession is over in the city, but they expect the recovery, slow and halting as it may be, to begin soon.

The playing, now and then halting as he tried to remember certain passages, was mostly prodigious and lush, evocative of familiar things.

Sipping bottled water at a cafe in Bloomington, Ms. Williams, 54, was as soft-spoken and halting as Mr. Apsley was forceful and precise.

The tough treatment would halt as soon as the prisoner expressed a desire to talk.

The decision caps most of the new development at five stories and could halt as many as 20 projects.

U-14 practices can screech to a halt as soon as boys (boys!) come within periscope range of the field.

His cardiac unit has nearly ground to a halt as well, with 120 patients awaiting urgent heart surgery.

Promising medical research into psychedelics ground to a halt as long ago as 1967, when they were made illegal amid widespread concern about their psychological and social harms.