hesitantly
hesitatingly

Hesitantly, he turned to his wife and took her hand.

She came to him hesitantly, and he took both her hands in his.

Hesitantly, she reached out and took hold of his hand.

He came forward rather hesitantly and took it from me.

He turned toward her and she reached, hesitantly, for his face.

I give, a little hesitantly, one example from my own books.

But she stood up and came toward him, though hesitantly at first.

Mike asked hesitantly, not sure if he wanted to know the answer.

Hesitantly, the man said something that John could not make out.

Hesitantly I said had he got one of these "things"?

She followed him hesitantly, not the little girl I knew around the house.

He held out his hand, and the young man came, hesitantly, toward the high table.

And now there was another young man coming, more hesitantly, well back from the rest.

She said a little hesitantly as they turned at her step, "Where is everyone?"

I turned hesitantly back towards the door and looked in.

Art is doing its thing, too, but more hesitantly and slowly.

Then, hesitantly, he began to make his way down the steps.

When she first hesitantly asked them to teach her, too.

He spoke hesitantly as though trying to work it out for himself.

He stood up, went over to the radio, and looked at it hesitantly.

Then she saw herself get up and hesitantly start taking off her clothes.

"You do know that one would almost think us real friends," she said hesitantly.

Then he moved hesitantly forward, but at ten feet the heat was too great.

Not a moment had passed when two women hesitantly stood behind me, and then asked if I really needed to be there.

"I think they are all in the other hospital," he said hesitantly.

The cook looks hesitatingly through the door on the right, and finally comes into the room.

He did, sort of hesitatingly, glancing back at the waiting men.

He stopped at this river and stood hesitatingly on the bank.

The baby was a month old when he spoke to Angela rather hesitatingly.

And then he said hesitatingly, "I guess we'll be going on."

"There is going to be another in our family soon," she hesitatingly remarked.

She backed off hesitatingly, while my heart cried for them both.

At last she gave in and hesitatingly whispered: "Let me see it."

They looked at one another hesitatingly for a moment.

"Yes; I think so, at least," said the young girl hesitatingly.

Five minutes passed; the sedan came hesitatingly around the corner.

She then began to lick, but only hesitatingly with the point of her tongue.

The pair of them left the gallery slowly, the man rather hesitatingly.

The boy looked nervously round the shop, and turned hesitatingly to go.

He looked at Norman, gathered himself together, and came hesitatingly down the hall.

"I never thought of it that way, father," Gordon said hesitatingly.

"I would not know where to sleep," said Phil, hesitatingly.

In the gloom of early evening Chris spoke my name hesitatingly.

Brave as they appeared to be, the two English gentlemen looked at each other hesitatingly.

Beth said hesitatingly as she looked around the room.

She looked up and smiled hesitatingly at Jason, then turned quickly back to the stove.

He held out a hand hesitatingly so that just the tips of his fingers touched its surface.

Hesitatingly, slowly, she obeyed him, eyes locked on his face.

"It's a dashed odd sort of thing I have got to ask you," he said hesitatingly.

"Tom," Sam began hesitatingly, "do you know the girls in the group well?"