How to Use halting in a Sentence

halting

adjective

• The baby took a few halting steps.
• She answered in a halting voice.
• Progress in the negotiations has been halting.
• The halting speech of wide-eyed, lantern-jawed Fenet is startling.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2020
• All of a sudden, the green light at the next signal didn’t come, forcing me to come to a halting stop ...
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
• And his speech has sounded more halting in recent weeks.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• The bearded and balding Mas’ud wore a green jail uniform and walked with a halting gait to the defense table.
  — Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• But all of that came to a halting end when Sandoval's months-long affair with Madix's best friend and costar Leviss surfaced.
  — Julia Meehan, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• Burdened with neo-medieval metaphor, the phrase is hard to grasp and harder to say—as halting as a parched hero’s dying words.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• Her phrasing is bell-like in its clarity; the melody has a halting naivete, like a nursery rhyme.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
• Just how the lengthy and halting array of early races will affect the GOP contest remains to be seen, though.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• The halting progress marks an evolution of the testing problems that have plagued the U.S. since the beginning of the pandemic.
  — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 21 May 2020
• But many economists say the comeback is likely to be far more halting.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
• The halting start in the House is perhaps more glaring when compared to the pace of activity in the courts and in other corners of the Capitol.
  — Karoun Demirjian, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2021
• It’s part of a new, if slow and halting, push by the U.S. to rein in big tech companies that have enjoyed largely unbridled growth in the past decade and a half.
  — Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
• Beijing, too, is aware of the funding problem and has pledged further fiscal reforms—but the process is slow and halting, Ms. Shan says.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• Amid the rise in infections and deaths, the country’s virus response remains fractured and halting.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2020
• Van Ruitenbeek rambled in halting, slurred speech when his sister and father reached him by phone.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
• His speech has sounded more halting in recent weeks, prompting questions among some of his colleagues about his health.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• But, in part because of the outbreak of Ebola in 2014, efforts to improve education have made halting progress.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• After a halting start, Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist prime minister, at least seems to have the country behind him.
  — The Economist, 18 Mar. 2020
• The landscape is beautifully halting, filled with white and grey stones that jut out from the ground, towering pine trees, fields of yellow grass, and views of the Pacific Ocean far in the distance.
  — Beck Bamberger, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• As with a fractured bone that has gone unset, the body has limped forward, but each step is ragged and halting, doing further damage to the untreated injury.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
• That process, typically slow and halting, is being sped up at hospitals all over the world in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 1 Apr. 2020
• Finally, with Mr. Hadelich’s clear, strong statement of the previously halting theme, the movement took off.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• At the same time, markets have also turned cautious as recent economic data showed that the rebound is likely to be slow and halting.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• It is rarely prepared for any turmoil—as the slow, halting, and then very violent response to the protests made readily apparent.
  — Ali Reza Eshraghi, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2023
• The looks on the faces and the body language of the players, the hushed, halting manner in which coach Geno Auriemma spoke, all of it has become too familiar for the UConn women’s basketball program.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
• If Biden’s performance had not been so halting and weak, Trump’s own ramblings and flights from reality — on tariffs, on January 6, on deficit spending — might have cost him.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2024
• But a closer look suggests that he’s still being protected in ways that could make his halting debate performance tougher to unsee, as his aides draw a cordon around him with the point of minimizing potential embarrassment.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024