Several friends described Mr. Ferguson as "slow," saying that he often spoke in a halting manner and sometimes had a hard time remembering things.

In a slow, halting manner, Kalinda said, "He... wanted to do things to me.

Everything about the Warrens is indicative of trouble, especially the pained, halting manner in which their story is presented.

He said it in a halting, protracted manner, and it was obvious that it was difficult for him.

E. G. sat there, his otherwise expressionless eyes welling up, and then in a slow and halting manner, he typed, "I trust you."

She found his overly cautious, halting manner to be distracting, as well.

Her somewhat halting manner of speech showed her to be, a person who didn't talk to many people.

Both Rogen and Apatow speak in a slightly halting manner, pausing momentarily before dropping the other shoe hard.

He looks extremely real and solid, and is clearly not illusory, but he talks in a stiff, halting manner.

He merely waited, but he was as anxious as I. "It's so very extraordinary," she said in a halting manner.