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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Some Republican lawmakers have expressed hesitance to focus on a DOGE dividend rather than lowering the national deficit or expanding tax cuts, according to Forbes.
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 12 Mar. 2025
Soren Toft and Vincent Clerc, the CEOs of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk, respectively, have called out the lack of safety guarantees as the top reason for their hesitance to return.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Mar. 2025
Greek hesitance could shift the burden of loading Ukraine’s biggest guns to another NATO country that still operates M110s with compatible ammo: Turkey.
—David Axe, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
This patience and hesitance to pay up when the market looked good in early trading has served us well so far.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 12 Mar. 2025
Soren Toft and Vincent Clerc, the CEOs of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk, respectively, have called out the lack of safety guarantees as the top reason for their hesitance to return.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Mar. 2025
Greek hesitance could shift the burden of loading Ukraine’s biggest guns to another NATO country that still operates M110s with compatible ammo: Turkey.
—David Axe, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
This patience and hesitance to pay up when the market looked good in early trading has served us well so far.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Feb. 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 30 Mar. 2025.
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hesitance
noun
hes·i·tance
ˈhez-ə-tən(t)s 
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