Sentence examples similar to a tentative handle from inspiring English sources

If Easy Goer is indeed a horse for the ages, he should have been able to overcome Day's tentative handling, because he had dead aim on Sunday Silence through Gulfstream's 952-foot stretch.

His writing hardly betrayed a tentative hand.

A tentative hand goes up.

The White House was unhappy with a tentative agreement for handling the sequester.

A tentative budget deal announced Thursday largely delayed the handling of the state's financial woes to the next biennial budget.

It's a tentative start, but it's a start nonetheless, as the car handled cornering and breaking for pedestrians all on its own.

I took a tentative nibble.

Make a tentative seating plan.

A tentative thumbs-up.

A tentative smile.

A tentative parts cost list.