Sentence examples for uncertain step from inspiring English sources

Rodriguez ultimately took a somewhat uncertain step across home plate before the ball arrived.

Despairing of the efficacy of medicine and the usefulness of exertion, Nancy has dropped out of medical school; this sentimental journey to Mexico is meant as the first uncertain step in a new life.

THE scene takes place on the Upper West Side of Manhattan between two brothers in search of their identities, caring for each other every awkward, uncertain step of the way.

"It was a very long and uncertain step from the establishment of X-ray crystallography to the application of it to large molecules," said Dr. Paul M. Doty, an emeritus professor of molecular biology at Harvard, who knew Dr. Perutz in Cambridge.

The need for validation re-introduces a costly, time-consuming and inherently uncertain step in using the result for development of therapeutics, a step that is obviated by identifying the genetic modifiers directly in humans.

"I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young.

My father might die before his uncertain steps give way to immobility.

Some of the jitters held the attention: for instance, the uncertain steps forward and backward that Monica Bill Barnes took in "She's Snapped, She Left," a solo in which she appeared to be trying to survive in the rat race of daily life.

But their energy now seemed to fade: they moved with uncertain steps, as though, on finding themselves amid those shards of scrap iron, they were suddenly seized by an awareness of their own nakedness; many of them folded their arms to cover their breasts as if shivering with cold.

I try a series of uncertain steps down this impromptu catwalk.

And getting Barack Obama and Putin to actually talk and tick a framework is only a highly uncertain first step.