Examples of hesitance in a Sentence
sales figures for the month were up, as consumers began to overcome their hesitance about purchasing big-ticket items
she mistook my hesitance to mean I didn't like her poem, but I was trying to come up with appropriate words of praise
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This patience and hesitance to pay up when the market looked good in early trading has served us well so far.
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Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
President-elect Trump is encountering some unlikely openness from Democrats — and hesitance and confusion from Republicans — with his talk of acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
In 2019, when recounting that milestone from her own perspective, McCaskey first recalled the sharp anxiety leading up to the game and her hesitance to answer any of the league’s logistical questions about preparing for the trophy presentation ceremony.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
Intelligence officials are likely to be concerned about the long-term effect that Trump’s policies will have on their agencies’ roles and authorities, leading to caution and hesitance that harm operational effectiveness.
—Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
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Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
President-elect Trump is encountering some unlikely openness from Democrats — and hesitance and confusion from Republicans — with his talk of acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
In 2019, when recounting that milestone from her own perspective, McCaskey first recalled the sharp anxiety leading up to the game and her hesitance to answer any of the league’s logistical questions about preparing for the trophy presentation ceremony.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
Intelligence officials are likely to be concerned about the long-term effect that Trump’s policies will have on their agencies’ roles and authorities, leading to caution and hesitance that harm operational effectiveness.
—Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hesitance
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“Hesitance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hesitance. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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hesitance
noun
hes·i·tance
ˈhez-ə-tən(t)s 
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