Sentence examples for tentatively over from inspiring English sources

I peered tentatively over the side into the silk-smooth ebony water.

As the phenomenon grew more pronounced, she touched the area tentatively, over the cotton of her knickers.

At my desk one morning last week, I glanced out the window and noticed a thin metal pole probing tentatively over the brick wall that encircles my small front yard.

By Evan Osnos August 31, 2009 At my desk one morning last week, I glanced out the window and noticed a thin metal pole probing tentatively over the brick wall that encircles my small front yard.

Recent episodes have expanded on the fruit-stall-as-metaphor-for-emotional-rejuvenation theme, with shots of the ex-chippy magnate sighing at customers, his paunch peering tentatively over his post-traumatic bumbag in a fashion that suggested normality – if not, perhaps, dignity – was imminent.

The problem with campsites, however, is that there are lots of tent ropes everywhere, which quickly translated into me being pinned down in the mud with a Maglite poised tentatively over my naked arse hole.

The stranger tentatively handed over the toy, and my amazing tot said the one thing I least expected.

The cause of death has been tentatively listed as "over capacity," though suspicion has fallen on the ill-tempered whale who first reported the death.

I avoided mentioning that the men I seduced were almost always white, and that, with my mouth tentatively poised over another man's mouth, I sometimes thought, I am not my mother; this is my story.

"They are shining a pretty bright light on parts of the banking system that are massively complex and, if I'm being polite, slightly dusty".Far more controversially, though, regulators are now also tentatively stepping over a long-standing divide between enforcing basic rules and playing a part in business decisions.

My focus is, retrospectively, on the ways in which future-related aspirations are cultivated and tentatively enacted over a biographical continuum in which international migration marks a major discontinuity.