Sentence examples for at first tentative from inspiring English sources

Relations between the two countries were at first tentative.

It packs an at first tentative but ultimately rollicking "guitar summit", the three players trading riffs and opinions.

The mere presence of a friendly face prompts a subtle palette shift: a nearby patch of grass brightens from gray to green, and the hopeful cry for "Neville," at first tentative, asserts itself in bold, chunky letters.

After the second chorus there is a softer, creepy keyboard break by Buxton, and when the vocals reappear they repeat "I wanna get out of here", at first tentative and imploring, before climaxing in the character's total mental breakdown and a return to the chorus.

At first, tentative and bashful with their expressions, the Tiboli women soon warmed up to the celebration.

Although oversold (an exit from poverty requires jobs, public services and infrastructure, not just visits from a social worker, as I said at a meeting with Anspe bosses afterwards), it is at least the first tentative step towards decent social security for the country's poorest inhabitants, and one initiated by Uribe, under whom official poverty figures also fell.

She arrived to take part in the process at Corbyn's office for the first tentative discussions at 2.30pm on Monday.

These are specifically aimed at babies taking those first tentative steps, so they are reassuringly wide to match baby-feet and they boast having "slip-resistant soles", which sounds like it must be a good thing.

The challenges and opportunities of electronic commerce are beginning to reach even the smallest companies, which are now going online to sell everything from janitorial supplies to tropical flowers -- or at least contemplating their first tentative steps onto the Web.

Although not intended at the time, the first tentative steps towards this happened through Global Voices, a citizen media site co-founded by Harvard University researcher Ethan Zuckerman and former CNN Tokyo and Beijing Bureau Chief Rebecca MacKinnon.

Their first tentative attempts at music produced only a two-fingered belching sound from the PA.