halting

his halting speech

her halting steps

Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.

But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.

Halting the decline of the planet's ecosystems may be the most difficult challenge humanity has ever faced.

Concerted governmental action has succeeded in halting the decrease in the language's number of speakers.