Sentence examples of "hésitant" in French

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Il était hésitant à révéler ce qu'il voulait vraiment dire. He was reluctant to reveal what he really meant.
Celui qui hésite est perdu. He who hesitates is lost.
Il hésita entre rentrer à la maison et rester au travail au bureau. He wavered between going home and remaining at work in the office.
Ne sachant avec quel prétendant elle voulait se marier, la princesse hésitait, nommant tantôt l'un, tantôt l'autre. Unsure of which suitor she wanted to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other.
Il a hésité pendant un moment. He hesitated for a moment.
Il a hésité avant de répondre. He hesitated before answering.
Une fois que vous hésitez, vous êtes perdu. Once you hesitate, you are lost.
Tom, seul, penché au bord gauche de la phrase, hésitait à sauter, pour en finir avec toute cette histoire. Tom, alone, bent over the left edge of the sentence, was hesitating to jump, to put an end to all this story.
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