Sentence examples for tentatively held from inspiring English sources

"Would he like some?" David had lifted him out of the pushchair and put him on a park bench; Suzie sat down and tentatively held out her ice-cream cone.

The most important issue for the coming debates is whether Mr. Bush can erode the perception, widespread but only tentatively held, that Mr. Gore is a man of greater competence and command.

Laycock (2006) no longer holds (and only tentatively held) that mass expressions are plural.

In contrast, authors for whom misconceptions were more tentatively held and/or emergent, suggested that students' incorrect ideas can be amended through tailored instruction grounded in those ideas (i.e., Klisch et al., 2012).

Unmoving, they stare straight ahead; as the curtain falls, Estragon tentatively holds out a hand to Vladimir, who takes it.

He said he used to tentatively hold this view himself, but has now renounced it - instead committing to a life as a celibate paedophile.

Between them Bosnia's three rotating presidents (one from each of the nationalist parties), the prime minister and the UN High Representative Paddy Ashdown tentatively hold the country together.

When she and the husband lie in bed tentatively holding hands the wife secretly gives him the finger.

Under the text is the picture of an obviously concerned, borderline-terrified man, clutching an armful of milk cartons, tentatively holding one forward.

And these two have chemistry so their falling in love is both inevitable and sweet, especially that first time they tentatively hold hands and begin to dance at the Ball.

There are plans, tentatively, to hold the workshop again in other neighborhoods (like Flushing, Queens, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn) and in other languages (like Mandarin and Korean).