Sentence examples for string of hesitations from inspiring English sources
A string of hesitations and bad decisions made the BlackBerry maker too late to the mobile party again and again.
When you blow down an oboe, or pull a bow across a string, an infinitesimal hesitation — the hesitation of vibration — separates the act and the sound; for trumpeters, the simple voicing of a quiet middle C is more fraught than very complex passages, because that brass tube can be sluggish in its obedience.
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus 224pp, Faber, £15.99 Why do I find it so difficult to remember a string of eight numbers, when my pocket calculator can do it without hesitation or error?
Adi's hesitation in pulling the trigger sets off in motion a string of events.
As a temporary detective, Jenny makes a string of inquiries, while demanding next to nothing for herself — not, at least, until the movie's end, when, after some hesitation, and with her sorrowful task completed, she requests a hug.
Two-kilometre string of firecrackers?
Think of a string of pearls.
There Linois conducted a string of commerce raids that achieved minimal success, hampered by both the lack of naval stores at Île de France and Linois's hesitation in the face of the enemy.
"String of guttural utterances"?
A string of dead goldfish.
