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The phrase "tentative he" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a hesitant or uncertain male subject, but it lacks context and clarity. Example: "In the meeting, the tentative he struggled to express his thoughts clearly."
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I was touched by how tentative he was".
Seeming a bit tentative, he punched in a series of numbers.
Still tentative, he retreated to the library, where he met Mr. O'Donnell.
"I did not trust the read and hit it tentative," he said.
Making sure to keep his tone tentative, he spoke of Milton's childhood, and then of the Civil War.
However tentative he felt about writing it, his First Symphony opens with a shock, not the expected cry but a despairing whisper.
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But, Mr. Kucinich said, "At the beginning, he was tentative, and he's not at his best when he's tentative".
At the ceremony, he seemed tentative as he held a rope given to him by a Maasai elder that was attached to a rambunctious bull.
Sometimes, deep in a conversation, Chip would mention having had doubts, but he sounded tentative when he tried to articulate what those doubts had been, especially if Skylar was in the room.
Murray lost to the Argentinian Del Potro in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters recently, principally because he became tentative, something he will need to guard against when playing the similar Cilic.
But Mr. Lundberg sometimes faltered, and he sounded unusually tentative when he ascended up into falsetto.
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