What is "tentatively"

Usage examples of "tentatively".

Tentatively, Sugar pushes William, to shift him off her pantalettes, which he does without demur.

When Danar del Reginal tentatively extended in sixte, Torrie parried, then disengaged his blade, stepping back, ever so slightly out of line.

Tentatively, Anne held out a bunch of snowdrops, their fresh green smell spreading through the small space around them.

WHISPER: Now another part of it comes back: lying against her in that shelf of forest, huddled against her, making my body a canvas for her against the cold, I held her very quietly for a long time in the aftermath of intercourse, resting first one cheek and then the other tentatively against her, feeling the smooth and even panels of her back, and unassaulted by all of my hammering, her body is as impermeable as a wound pressed against me.

The latest research tentatively demonstrates that the level of certain apolipoproteins in your bloodstream predicts your chances of having a heart attack even more accurately than the HDLs do.

Murdock saw the first Chicom head lift tentatively over the ridge line and then vanish.

He groped for the steel lip and tentatively snaked both hands inside until they collided with the topmost mound of cinerous residue.

For instance: it struck me early on that, while there were indications of other feet at work two pairs of highly active rubberised soles on hard floor, and one pair of light leather which I tentatively awarded to the catlike Tabizi there was no slapping of crocs, thereby leading me to the conclusion that Haj was either suspended above the ground in some way, or shoeless, or both.

Some small hypothalamic proteins have been identified tentatively in the third ventricle of the brain, which connects the hypothalamus with the thalamus, a region also within the limbic system.

He felt pulled down, and then they were lying next to each other on the couch, mouths connected still, hands drifting tentatively over arms and shoulders.

African descent, I think Nav would have nailed her right there for what bordered tentatively on racist comments.

Tentatively sht searched for and found handholds and places for her stock inged toes.

And one may tentatively define his relation to Slavophilism as being the exact obverse of his attitude toward the radicals: while personally unsympathetic to the social biases of the Slavophils, he nonetheless found in their writings a justification for many of his own most intimate idea-feelings.

Meg, face screwed up in concentration, tentatively touched the sticklike leg.

They held hands tentatively, as though their nonpregnancy had fragiled their marriage.