Sentence examples for tentatively when from inspiring English sources

Sentence The phrase "tentatively when" is not technically incorrect but it is not a common or immediately understood phrase.
You would likely need to provide context for it to make sense. For example, you could write: "We will make our decision tentatively when we have all the relevant information."

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Van Horn barely felt a part of the game from the beginning, playing tentatively when he was on the court.

"I wonder if you've got a part for Laurence George Devinene asked Osborne tentatively when he was still at work on The Entertainer's script.

Earlier in the day, at a campaign appearance, Mr. Edwards responded tentatively when asked if he supported the White House's policy to deal with unrest in Haiti by trying to broker a power-sharing arrangement with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his opponents.

"Micro" began tentatively, when Rigal trim and bearded, wearing gray jeans, dark shoes, and a glittery blue-and-white cropped jacket with a jagged "S" on it, bare-chested underneath approached a microphone on a stand and, lit starkly from above, began a slow, investigative duet with it, wheeling its base around the floor, accompanied by a grating sound, then the roar of a train.

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He expects a telling off for it -- "It was not a household in which one did anything without a point, unless prayer is to be included in that category" -- and is tentatively delighted when the telling off doesn't come.

Early nomenclature of carboxylesterases was based on enzyme characteristics such as substrate specificity or pI value, order of identification, or tentatively named when isolated or sequenced (Sanghani et al., 2009; Furihata et al., 2004; Ellinghaus et al., 1998; Dolinsky et al., 2001; Robbi et al., 1990; Furihata et al., 2003; Strausberg et al., 2002; Ovnic et al., 1991).

The campaign began tentatively last September when Starbucks was persuaded to ask its customers to forego bringing their guns into its stores.

They may be further irritated by the next book, tentatively due this fall, when Mr. Kinney sticks a thumb in their collective eye.

The deal, which when tentatively announced in October suspended several pending lawsuits, puts an end to years of wrangling between the Crees and the regional government over a proposed hydroelectric project in the area that would affect land under the tribe's jurisdiction.

It's next to Sworkit and Candy Crush and the BBC Weather icon, just another thing to tentatively tap at when you're sat on the toilet.

The script featured a three-foot tall man with control over electricity; Lynch first met Michael J. Anderson when tentatively casting for this role, and later cast him in Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive as a result.

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