Sentence examples for tentative hand from inspiring English sources

His writing hardly betrayed a tentative hand.

A tentative hand goes up.

In a panic, I put a tentative hand on his shoulder.

You could sniff at it as saccharine and adolescent, as indeed some critics have – there's a lot of tentative hand-holding going on – but at least it's pop music talking about a situation that might be relevant to its teenage audience, rather than telling them all about the champagne and hotties in the VIP area of a club they couldn't get into.

A few tentative hands went up.

Republicans were divided between those who criticized the president before he had uttered a word and those who reached with tentative hands toward an olive branch, citing the exhaustion of the American public with perpetual partisanship.

19 Tentative Deal Hands JPMorgan Record Penalty | The $13 billion deal would resolve an array of state and federal investigations into the bank's sale of troubled mortgage investments.

An obsessive lover's possessiveness and perplexity glitter in this Rothko's eyes like a fever as he runs a tentative, caressing hand over a canvas or looks out at the (unseen) painting on the fourth wall between the stage and the audience.

Brown's office released a terse statement about the tentative deal, saying it would do little more than hand over control of the state's prisons to inmate lawyers.

But these lads from a nearby village went about their business with bowed backs and closed faces, and their manner was tentative; their hands shook as they set items down on the starched linen tablecloth.

While their lips smoosh, up comes her hand, tentative or grabbing, to his neck, as the score swells and the camera swoops.