Sentence examples for duly tentative from inspiring English sources

Reading came into the game on the back of a 5-0 defeat at Fulham that had halted a five-match winning run in the league and looked duly tentative, failing to create anything of note in the first half and more than once playing themselves into trouble as Wednesday sought to make good a visible physical advantage.

Instead of enabling duly passed laws to be enforced, enforcement is now made tentative and uncertain, either because someone is missing altogether or the responsibility falls to an "acting" officer who by nature is not prepared to make decisions that require courage and judgment or to be responsive to the President's program.

Duly noted.

November (tentative).

He duly fell short.

He duly obliged.

He was duly dissuaded.

All right — duly warned?

Evans duly converted.

Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell duly performed it.

It has duly delivered.