Sentence examples for tentative friends from inspiring English sources

Novalee also makes tentative friends in the area.

The two countries are still technically at war and are still far more accustomed to behaving as implacable enemies than bashful, tentative friends.

Kromer is seen by his more tentative friends, a bunch of graduate students and legal proof-readers, as some kind of satyr, yet he knows he is nothing in comparison to his former schoolmate, the reckless Greta, "a raven-haired, baggy-eyed heiress".

"C'est pas trop épicé," said one, encouraging a tentative friend — "It's not too spicy," high praise from the chile-fearing French.

My first steps were tentative: a friend was playing Reading so I went along for the day.

At the beginning there was barely any music, just Mr. Banhart's tentative voice: "My friend has my favorite teeth/They bend backwards when she breathes/And it whistles".

We watch her tentative attempts to make friends while avoiding either a shanking or a shower gangbanging.

The friends' first tentative touching of lips recalls the moment in a science fiction movie when a male earthling bestows a kiss on a beautiful, mystified alien and awakens strange sensations.

I would play my new tentative musical efforts for friends in person or usually over the telephone, and eagerly await what they thought of my work.

The narrator, a tentative, rueful photographer and friend of Dean's, states on many occasions that he is imagining this affair — that he is making it all up, which makes the novel something of a puzzle.

Far and away, the strongest strand was Roy and Cathy taking their awkward, grief-stricken love story to its next level, from her putting her foot in it over their Blackpool debacle to the tentative exit from the "friend zone" at the back of that abandoned bus.