How to Use halting in a Sentence

halting

adjective

• The baby took a few halting steps.
• She answered in a halting voice.
• Progress in the negotiations has been halting.
• The halting speech of wide-eyed, lantern-jawed Fenet is startling.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2020
• His small stature and careful, halting steps between chambers and the bench hint at his age.
  — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
• Discard all these non-halting machines.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2025
• But many economists say the comeback is likely to be far more halting.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
• López Lizano spoke with a kind of halting formality, which charmed her.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Her phrasing is bell-like in its clarity; the melody has a halting naivete, like a nursery rhyme.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
• But progress is progress, no matter how halting or incremental.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Burdened with neo-medieval metaphor, the phrase is hard to grasp and harder to say—as halting as a parched hero’s dying words.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• His speech has sounded more halting in recent weeks, prompting questions among some of his colleagues about his health.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• Van Ruitenbeek rambled in halting, slurred speech when his sister and father reached him by phone.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
• All singing and moving in three-quarters time at the halting dawn of the 20th century.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
• The bearded and balding Mas’ud wore a green jail uniform and walked with a halting gait to the defense table.
  — Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• Amid the rise in infections and deaths, the country’s virus response remains fractured and halting.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2020
• Much of that work is focused on halting shipments of cocaine, most of which is produced in the jungles of Colombia.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
• Like many collaborations, this one has been imperfect, a halting dance.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
• Some Democrats say Biden's halting debate performance wasn't an anomaly.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 5 July 2024
• While the city has provided shelter, meals and medical services, its response has been at times halting or chaotic.
  — Karen Zraick, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• But all of that came to a halting end when Sandoval's months-long affair with Madix's best friend and costar Leviss surfaced.
  — Julia Meehan, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• The brand said halting operations for one day is its way of showing solidarity.
  — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• At the same time, markets have also turned cautious as recent economic data showed that the rebound is likely to be slow and halting.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
• Emirates has been trying to get its sprawling travel network up and running after several days of halting flights due to the war.
  — ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
• It is rarely prepared for any turmoil—as the slow, halting, and then very violent response to the protests made readily apparent.
  — Ali Reza Eshraghi, Foreign Affairs, 24 May 2023
• Just how the lengthy and halting array of early races will affect the GOP contest remains to be seen, though.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2023
• Whatever emotional charge the series has accumulated thus far sputters to a halting stop with the change of pace and scenery.
  — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 5 May 2024
• As with a fractured bone that has gone unset, the body has limped forward, but each step is ragged and halting, doing further damage to the untreated injury.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
• That process, typically slow and halting, is being sped up at hospitals all over the world in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 1 Apr. 2020
• The position made it into Williams’ order on Thursday halting construction at the site for two weeks.
  — Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025