Sentence examples similar to touch tentatively from inspiring English sources

When he asks his lesbian pal Isabelle (Cécile de France), now a financial journalist, to pretend to be his fiancée to please his 98-year-old grandfather, and she in turn persuades him to put on drag, the movie touches tentatively on the subject of sexual fluidity.

He'd touch it tentatively, trying to get comfortable.

They are now in touch, but tentatively and without much pleasure.

It's different when you later tentatively touch that same stranger's shoulder as she sits down again, sobbing after speaking to the gathering, and she responds by turning to you for a hug.

An ocher starfish whose knobbly skin she tentatively touched.

As they did, Mr. DeChiazza tentatively touched Ms. Hollinsworth.

But when I tentatively touched its back, it became a he, a fellow mammal.

But not too many where the man actually, tentatively touches her - and she screams.

The crowd lingers, a few reach out, tentatively touching the wares.

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

Looking almost as distraught as the father and child, the court officer approached the two and tentatively touched the little girl's shoulder.