Sentence examples for truly tentative from inspiring English sources

Some of the truly tentative want me to confirm their excuses, while others seek an alibi for why they won't buy.

As sweeping as the administration's proposals seem to be, they are only tentative steps toward truly effective regulation by a government and political system that is impotent when it isn't corrupt.

Ms. Morton's Martha, unusually, comes across as a sometimes tentative antagonist, as if she senses that the game truly has changed and isn't sure she wants to fully engage under the new rules of combat.

Those differences include evidence that the United States is truly pulling out of Iraq, far tougher sanctions on Iran and the tentative emergence of a working Palestinian government in the West Bank.

Tiny, tentative.

November (tentative).

Her smile became tentative.

"I was very tentative.

Richard Hilger appeared more tentative.

He was tentative.

Tentative steps, maybe.