I fear there is a good deal of objectionable gossip going about the village just now," she tentatively commenced.
By the time the plateau was reached and the hill lay behind her, she could afford to walk the horse, tentatively invite her soul, and attempt to hold communion with Nature.
As a means of handling the name, Micoureus canus Matschie, we tentatively place it as a subspecies of the species Caluromys derbianus.
Because of this lack of proof we tentatively recognize the subspecies Conepatus mesoleucus pediculus instead of placing the name Conepatus pediculus in the synonomy of Conepatus mesoleucus mearnsi.
It could be Caluromys derbianus fervidus and we tentatively refer it to that subspecies.
He took a shower, put on clean clothes, and parked tentatively in Jacky's driveway.
One of the girls was looking tentatively at Oliver, holding the top of the booth with both hands.
The suggested conclusion so far as it is not accepted but only tentatively entertained constitutes an idea.
Reasoning requires some experimental observation to confirm it, while experiment can be economically and fruitfully conducted only on the basis of an idea that has been tentatively developed by reasoning.
Mr. Frazer tentatively suggests another, a rival or a subsidiary solution of the problem, to which reference has already been made.
He stood up, moved his arms and legs tentatively and gave himself a shake.
For a few moments the Arab sat silent, smoking rapidly, then he raised his dark eyes tentatively to Craven's face.
The repentant Mouston, abject at her continued neglect, crawled from his basket and crept tentatively to her, and as absently her hand went out to him gained courage and climbed up beside her.
Tentatively I got inside the doors and they shut behind me with an abrupt finality.
The Navy played right along when it was tentatively agreed that it was to be an island where I would be "stationed," as they euphemistically called it; they knew that islands are surrounded by water, and who sails on the water?
They advanced tentatively, cautious of the polished floor, so tentatively that Grizel met them more than half-way, sailing gracefully forward with an infinity of assurance which had the unexpected result of daunting them still further.
Teresa could not bring herself to introduce such a topic, but she did tentatively mention the honeymoon one day, asking Dane where he would take her.
He attended his classes and lectures, played on the basketball team, triedtentatively to write for the campus newspaper, learned to perform indifferently on the mandolin, and made himself into the semblance of an ideal college man.
He walked to the safe and rapped on it tentatively with his knuckles.
Tentatively he tested its weight, as if he were a normally husky youth about to undertake its transportation.
Then it was that citizens of credit and renown in London first hit upon the glorious discovery of the seaside, and that watering-places tentatively and timidly raised their unobtrusive heads along the nearer beaches.
The new year was born in a wild smother of flying snow, which died at dawn to let a pale, heatless sun peer tentatively over the southern mountains, his slanting beams setting everything aglitter.
Wherefore she abandoned that diversion, and took to prying tentatively in the lee of certain bowlders on the edge of the creek--prospecting on her own initiative, as it were.
He poked tentatively at the furry carcass with his toe.
Thus the third month of her tenure drifted by, and beyond the telltale glances aforesaid, Mr. Bush remained tentatively friendly and nothing more.
Humphreys hastentatively suggested that all genuine cases of ball lightning are "stalled thunderbolts"; i.
A few British authorities have tentatively styled this form of precipitation "ice rain," a name which has, however, been otherwise applied.
To this end he tentatively had approached our leading exponent of the art of self-defense and our most dependable sporting authority, one Mr. Jerry Ditto.
Some of the lesser churches, that humbly and tentatively reached out toward perfection, make a deeper appeal than does stupendous Beauvais.
In February 1565, Elizabeth found it no longer possible to prevent Darnley's return to Scotland, and in April it was tentatively announced that he was to be Mary's husband.
The two silent watchers could not see this man, but they could hear him grumbling and scolding audibly in short jerky sentences which he appeared to throw somewhat tentatively at his rowdy lodger.
The latter bewildered, really not clear with himself as to what he ought to do, peeped tentatively beneath the cover of the vehicle.
Then slowly exhaling the pungent wreath he flicked the ash from the cigarette tip and tentatively extended his sinewy arm.
I do feel sorely bruised," tentatively rubbing her side, "but I am certain that is all.
Douglass tentatively placed his hand in the side pocket of his reefer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tentatively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
