Sentence examples for pretty tentative from inspiring English sources

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"They've been pretty tentative and pretty half-hearted, but they should be recognized because they're a step forward," he said.

Everything seemed pretty tentative until Wyclef Jean took the stage; if any hip-hop star knows how to get a well-heeled audience to stand up and dance, it's this one, awkward raps and all.

I was pretty tentative in those days.

Pretty tentative language for an issue that's exploding on the political scene.

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At Wednesday's matinee this was danced by Melissa Hamilton, delicately pretty, if tentative, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Sergei Polunin, a beautifully refined dancer who didn't look as if this were his favorite role.

Mr Hammond said that was a "tentative conclusion" with "some pretty heavy caveats" and added the UK government could have firmed up numbers within three years of the concession ending.

Particularly with the Bicep and Eats Everything on board, the residencies so far has been pretty house-focused, which makes the tentative title of the next run all the more intriguing: 12 Weeks of Techno.

A moment comes when her pretty features soften, and she looks so tentative and appealing that we're taken in.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub, the movie serves Red Bull and vodkas to its tentative swingers, which leads to a pretty funny joke delivered by Freeman: "I feel like I'm getting drunk and electrocuted at the same time".

Cieply uses the conditional or tentative form of "could" five times in a pretty short article.

"We're pretty chilled about it," says Blomfield when I ask him if TransferWise's tentative entry into the bank account space was in any way a concern.

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