But Hannibal and Mago departed from Italy not on account of the tentative arrangements but through haste to reach the scene of war at home.
It was wise, at first, perhaps, that our sanitary legislation should be tentative and experimental; but experience having proved its necessity it should be made more stringent.
The result is that the tentative views of Buffon, which have to be with much research extracted from the forty-four volumes of his works, would now be regarded as in a degree superficial and valueless.
This representation, it should be clearly understood, is tentative and approximate only.
But when one comes to ask how the various forms are adaptational, and how the influences of environment have led to their production, only conjectures of a preliminary and tentativecharacter could be expected in reply.
It is only recently that we have dared to be as athletic as we might, and the effort is still tentative enough to be relinquished if we notice any resulting deterioration, muscular or moral, in men.
Even in an inductive system journalism would still have place as a medium for fragmentary and tentative treatment.
So in the details of the play there is nowhere a note of the hesitation that betraystentative action.
In an Appendix to this chapter I have suggested schemes of Analysis for each of the five plays treated in this work: [Analysis tentative not positive.
Bess gave a sigh and made a tentative effort to rise, but a gentle, restraining hand on her shoulder told her that though the man at her side was silent, he was still solicitous.
If I may make a quick and highly tentative guess, this mind is suffering from some kind of trauma induced from an outside source.
Now, to comprehend our tentative hypothesis, you must understand something of what is known about the brain.
Then he twittered and chirped in a tentative way as if he had not made up his mind about singing, and the party on the terrace felt like clapping to encourage him.
If there be an obvious abscess over the mastoid process; except in infants, in whom Wilde’s incision may be attempted as a tentative measure, although it is not recommended.
The operation is onlytentative and is seldom successful.
In fact, deliberation, as a tentative trying-out of various courses of action, is outlooking.
The experiment is carried on by tentative rehearsals in thought which do not affect physical facts outside the body.
The former regards the end-in-view in deliberation as tentative and permits, nay encourages the coming into view of consequences which will transform it and create a new purpose and plan.
For library work in business organizations is no longer a theory or a tentative experiment, but has proved itself in the firms adopting it to be an integral part of the successful work of the corporation.
So long as this question is in process of solution we may accept the following as a tentative reply: No books weak in social ideals should be furnished, provided we do not lose reading children by their elimination.
Upon motion by Mr. Wellman it was voted that the above report be printed as a tentative report in the Bulletin.
A second report of adult titles which children and intermediates might and do read was called for recently and from that a tentative list has been furnished both adult and children's workers for further study.
Having chosen even a tentativegoal his progress has direction.
A tentative question or two put to Kayak Bill revealed this, though it availed her nothing.
Kilbuck turned in the grip and chest to chest they swayed, strained, their tentative blows rendered impotent by their very nearness to each other.
Kobuk, with appealing whines and tentative pawings at the door, had finally won an entrance and was curled up in front of the stove.
Mrs. Constable cast what seemed a tentative glance at the powerful head, and handed him his tea.
The faith of "In Heaven is Earth" is but a tentative expression of his later gospel.
It is interesting to see the tentative beginnings of the James school in Bruce, already at variance with the orthodox methods upheld by his critical collaborator.
Even the tentative belief is timidly qualified:-- "Earthly beauty is but heavenly beauty taking to itself flesh.
It even referred directly to one of my tentative hypotheses, at once negativing it and giving another altogether satisfactory.
The Church was no longer a fraternity, on a footing of equality, with freedom of belief and tentative as to dogma, but an authoritative aristocratic hierarchy.
Average Jones' still untouched glass, almost full of the precious port, trembled and sang a littletentative response.
Average Jones gave its author a few specific instructions as to minor lines of home investigation, and retired to map out a tentative campaign.
Moreover, we must not neglect to notice that these tentative or random movements resemble in every way the localizing movements, save only in their want of precision.
The governor had the right to make appointments in all departments of the government, except in certain so-called offices of royal designation, to which the governor made tentative appointments, subject to subsequent royal confirmation.
In the territory of the enemy the men were reached through the gradual and tentative efforts of women whom the uninitiated supposed to be spending idle hours at a sewing circle.
Every fresh brand of steel has, therefore, to be treated at first in a tentative and experimental fashion in order to secure the best possible results.
Mr. Gaines and Truscomb had both discountenanced the erection of a special building for what was, after all, only a tentative enterprise.
War had broken out, as was usual between the gangs, in a somewhat tentative fashion at first sight.
He started, possibly, in a merely tentative way by slugging one of the family circle.
A tentative cough, suggesting that the situation was now about to enter upon a more delicate phase.
A tentative shot from nowhere ripped through the air close to where Psmith lay flattened on the pavement.
I started with the purely tentative hypothesis that the person who signed the will was not Jeffrey Blackmore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tentative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
