hesitantly

The Vietnamese people smuggler emerged, briefly and hesitantly, from the shadows of a scraggly forest close to the northern French coastline.

When I asked—a little hesitantly—she told me that she’s phased out the DRE for her patients in favor of a blood test that, while not foolproof, is less likely to result in false-positive results.

Tom asks if she's a Carolina or Duke fan and Savannah hesitantly says "To be honest, I was raised in a Carolina family. . ." but then Tom gives her a thumbs up and everyone laughs.

Despite every instinct in Eve’s body telling her to refuse, she hesitantly invites the family inside, a horrible miscalculation leading to a series of chilling events.

Presidential front-runner and governing party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum hesitantly met with representatives from the Mexican bishops’ conference.