Sentence examples for then tentatively from inspiring English sources

Lee, who was a guest at the club, froze for a moment and then tentatively but politely hugged back.

Innocently, then tentatively, Susan Walker would tell a friend or an acquaintance that she happened to be the daughter of a major league baseball player.

He is then tentatively engaged to the suitor he prefers so far, and that suitor is likewise tentatively engaged to him.

But one Kimmy Schmidt storyline was singled out for often-bewildered complaints: Jane Krakowski's Jacqueline Voorhees initially repudiating, then tentatively exploring, her Native American heritage.

He then tentatively imagines a so-called "agape restaurant" where, instead of dining with like-minded friends, you would be invited to eat with strangers.

Then, tentatively, he joined the hubbub, moving across the stage to the far right, where John Cleese, the grandee of the group, was sitting and inhaling oxygen as an antidote to the thin Colorado air.

Here, he paused, then pointed tentatively to his hair.

The fans gasped and groaned and then cheered, tentatively, as Sandis Ozolinsh and Adam Oates helped Kariya off the ice as Kariya's legs wobbled.

For instance, when one of Donna's old lovers tells one of her unattached middle-aged friends that he is through with romance, she reflects for a long, coy moment, then sings tentatively, "If you change your mind......

When travel time differences are measured for more than 40 waveform pairs, then we tentatively assumed the occurrence of a seismic event.

After being unsettled by a blow on his bottom hand from a Murtagh lifter, Chris Jordan then played tentatively forward four deliveries later only to drag an away-swinger onto his leg stump for an eight-ball duck.