haltingly

Camil’s lips start quivering after this line, and he fights back tears as he haltingly finishes.

He only gets one chance to ask for help, and his pleas come out so haltingly that it’s easy to see how someone might just think that Grandpa needs to be put to bed.

“This is where we were supposed to grow old,” she said haltingly.

At the protest, Goldberg, who walks haltingly with a cane, waded into a shouting, shoving crowd to stand with the school’s supporters and try to engage with the other side.

His explanation, delivered haltingly, amounted to a hazy assumption that, since Dominique Pelicot had told him his wife was a consenting partner in a sex game, he had not given the matter any more thought.