Sentence examples for a tentative leg from inspiring English sources
The Scot had hardly been sitting for two minutes when Michael Carrick's poor back-pass was compounded by De Gea whose indecision meant he stuck out a tentative leg rather than emphatically clear the danger.
11.06pm GMT 21st over: New Zealand 52-0 (Fulton 30, Rutherford 21) Fulton slaps Broad for four, on-driving to the titchy spot in front of the sightscreen but he isn't altogether comfortable, tapping out a tentative horse-leg hello with his front foot and being hit firmly twixt bat and pad but bat first.
There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.
The best was a delivery that forced Australia's captain to offer a tentative bat as the ball ballooned into the air, just missing the stumps and short leg's lunging hand.
She had really long legs, looked a bit like a turkey, with a very small comb and a tentative step in her gait.
I took a tentative nibble.
Make a tentative seating plan.
His writing hardly betrayed a tentative hand.
But it is making a tentative comeback.
