Get to know Hesitate better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like waver or waffle.
Hesitate meaning
- To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
- To stammer; to falter in speaking.
- To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
Using Hesitate
- The main meaning on this page is: To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination. | To stammer; to falter in speaking. | To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
- Useful related words include: waver, waffle, pause, delay.
- In the example corpus, hesitate often appears in combinations such as: hesitate to, not hesitate, don hesitate.
Context around Hesitate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hesitate
- In this selection, "hesitate" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, man stand out and add context to how "hesitate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include again i hesitate to make and didn t hesitate to acknowledge. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hesitate" sits close to words such as attire, bates and battleground, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hesitate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Don’t hesitate to seek a second opinion. (8 words)
He won't hesitate to kill another for seemingly no reason. (11 words)
Gifford didn’t hesitate to acknowledge how challenging it can be to maintain this perspective. (15 words)
Don’t hesitate for a single moment – if you see a terrorist, don’t think that you have deliberately killed a hostage, you need to protect yourselves because that’s the only way you would be able to protect us. (40 words)
He then warned that the LTO will strictly enforce its mandate under Republic Act 4136 or the “Land Transportation and Traffic Code” and will not hesitate to apprehend motorists violating the rules. (32 words)
An Ofgem spokesman said: “These are extremely serious allegations from The Times which we will investigate urgently with British Gas and we won’t hesitate to take firm enforcement action. (30 words)
As always, if further assistance is needed don’t hesitate to contact Apple Support for help! (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
Again, I hesitate to make these blanket gender distinctions, but I think research backs this up.
Also at the same event, R&B queen Mary J Blige didn't hesitate to approach Tems after spotting her on the red carpet.
An Ofgem spokesman said: “These are extremely serious allegations from The Times which we will investigate urgently with British Gas and we won’t hesitate to take firm enforcement action.
As always, if further assistance is needed don’t hesitate to contact Apple Support for help!
As they evacuate Bucky, Peggy calls out to him and tells him Steve is the one piloting the suit, which makes the older man hesitate.
As you begin planning the actual contents of your garden, don’t hesitate to blend edibles with beauty.
At Western Michigan, he will hesitate and use a club/rip bouncing off the chip of the running back to make the sack and cause the fumble.
A woman "will never" hesitate to make a shot, the sniper - who is now mum to a three-month-old child - said.
By that, we mean that they won’t hesitate to playfully roast each other with jokes and nicknames.
Despite Thor's own warning, he didn't hesitate to pour the ale into Steve's cup.
Don’t hesitate for a single moment – if you see a terrorist, don’t think that you have deliberately killed a hostage, you need to protect yourselves because that’s the only way you would be able to protect us.
Don’t hesitate to reach out to them and take the first step towards a beautiful and thriving lawn.
Don’t hesitate to seek a second opinion.
Even when we are back in Flatbush with young Streisand, narrator Barbra doesn’t hesitate to jump in, just as she would in person, ad-libbing, digressing, finessing.
For example, I wouldn't hesitate to feed the transcript from a speech — transcribed by yet another AI program, the excellent — into ChatGPT and tell it to summarize it.
For his part, Moatez Mostafa Abdelkader, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Juba says his government does not hesitate to support South Sudan anytime.
Gifford didn’t hesitate to acknowledge how challenging it can be to maintain this perspective.
He didn't hesitate to demand a resumption of liquidity injection and bully his way to get it.
He then warned that the LTO will strictly enforce its mandate under Republic Act 4136 or the “Land Transportation and Traffic Code” and will not hesitate to apprehend motorists violating the rules.
He won't hesitate to kill another for seemingly no reason.
Common combinations with hesitate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hesitate to 166×
- not hesitate 69×
- don hesitate 28×
- didn hesitate 16×
- won hesitate 12×
- don't hesitate 12×
- to hesitate 11×
- didn't hesitate 8×
- hesitate in 6×
- doesn hesitate 4×