Sentence examples for and tentatively from inspiring English sources

Marguerite smiled and tentatively mirrored the claw gesture.

The Afghan experience is indeed salutary: NATO's involvement has grown only slowly and tentatively.

One boy bent over and tentatively stuck a finger in the water.

He became a vegetarian, a socialist, a spellbinding orator, a polemicist, and tentatively a playwright.

Finally, she speared the tofu with a fork and tentatively put it to her lips.

The accession dates may come only when talks with each country end, and tentatively even then.

Erica doesn't seem to mind: she senses his damage and tentatively shares her own.

In short, the mere flexing of military power worked — initially and tentatively.

In Hannah's story, a recovering drunk muses about his transformation and tentatively reëngages with neighborhood life.

The streaks have been definitively seen in seven locations and tentatively identified in 20 others.

In the Yucatan, he photographed architectural ruins only recently, and tentatively, retrieved from devouring vegetation.