What is "hesitantly"

Usage examples of "hesitantly".

Around the third inning she leaned her head against his shoulder, and Alan hesitantly put his arm around her.

The bath attendant drifted hesitantly back as Alec finished dressing, offering him a tray of oils and combs.

Only the youngsters -- Birken, Greflinger, and, hesitantly, the student Scheffler -- stayed in the courtyard with Zesen and approached the maids.

For another thirty minutes the bogies appeared hesitantly and indecisively on radar and then the scopes were clear.

Both men held their cleavers in shaking hands, moving hesitantly through the flat.

Jane got groggily to her knees, shook her head, rose hesitantly to her feet, turned about dizzily, finally staggered to the male threesome waiting in the blue doorway.

Rand gave it hesitantly, not sure whether or not the man was making fun of him, but the gleeman had already turned his attention to Perrin.

As Dorel stepped hesitantly inside, Katana lay down in the hall, his back to the bedroom.

More cheerful, Creohan put his muscles into the climb, but they had not yet left the grass when Madal spoke hesitantly.

Occasionally Merced would lean over and hesitantly whisper something to her and she would giggle.

Allen III, a somewhat plump, pleasant-faced twenty-seven-year-old who was commanding officer of Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, 7th Infantry Division, was hesitantly pleased with his current mission, the establishment and operation of a roadblock on a road south of Suwon.

He moved hesitantly toward the edible mushroom which would be food for Saya and the rest.

Without eyes, the discoverer gazed speculatively upon the bipeds as they moved hesitantly through the tumid slipstream that was the real universe.

He was in a black, untalkative mood and as Heather came hesitantly to the tub, she was fearful of offering him her services.

Hesitantly, the big man bent down toward Brewster, who reached into the inside pocket of his jacket and took out his hom-rimmed glasses.