HALTING in a Sentence

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237 example sentences for HALTING, such as:

1. The car comes to a halt.
2. She walked towards him and then halted.
3. The trial was halted after the first week.
4. They halted at a short distance from the house.
5. Racing was halted for an hour while the track was repaired.

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 Meanings and Examples of HALTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
halting
 a.  hesitant; faltering; imperfect or defective
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, Helene turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave to everyone.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
2  They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
3  But not far from Bald Hills he again came out on the road and overtook his regiment at its halting place by the dam of a small pond.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
4  The symptoms of disorder that Pierre had noticed at their first halting place after leaving Moscow had now reached the utmost limit.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XII
5  At their yesterday's halting place, feeling chilly by a dying campfire, Pierre had got up and gone to the next one, which was burning better.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIII
6  When the troops reached their night's halting place on the eighth of November, the last day of the Krasnoe battles, it was already growing dusk.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VII
7  A lecturer with motion-pictures of an Andean exploration; excellent pictures and a halting narrative.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
9  Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
10  Again the scout and his companions made the circuit of the halting place, each slowly following the other, until they assembled in the center once more, no wiser than when they started.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
11  He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
12  A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he were dragging or spreading out something on the ground.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
13  Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones's legs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
14  Often when I thought of this I could make no answer or only a very foolish and halting one upon which he used to smile and nod his head twice or thrice.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
15  We tear ourselves away, I and Iphitus and Pelias, Iphitus now stricken in age, Pelias halting too under the wound of Ulysses, called forward by the clamour to Priam's house.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Novice extemporaneous speakers often talk in a halting fashion as they grope for the right words.
2  In a halting voice she said that she wished to make a statement.
3  Racing was halted for an hour while the track was repaired.
4  The trial was halted after the first week.
5  Building at the site was halted after human remains were unearthed earlier this month.
6  The development programme has been halted in its tracks by this intervention.
7  Striking workers halted production at the auto plant yesterday.
8  Production has halted at all of the company's factories because of the pay dispute.
9  They halted at a short distance from the house.
10  She walked towards him and then halted.
11  After news of Rupert Murdoch's ambitious move, the company's share value rose rapidly, opening at 37 dollars and 12 cents and going up to 57 dollars and 28 cents before trading was halted by the New York Stock Exchange.
12  The ASX yesterday halted trading for four hours after detecting a technical issue.
13  The court order that banned Chinese mobile maker Xiaomi from selling its phones in India has halted its breakneck expansion into the world's fastest growing major smartphone market and could be just the start of a string of patent challenges.
14  Then the rain came and the red flag went up to signal a halt.
15  The car comes to a halt.