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Sentence count:232+6Posted:2016-10-18Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: doubtfulprobationaryprovisionalprovisionarySimilar words: tentativelyrepresentativeostentatiousorientationpresentationargumentationrepresentationimplementationMeaning: ['tentətɪv]  adj. 1. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon 2. unsettled in mind or opinion. 
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31. There are many things to think about before even the first tentative daffodil bulb is sunk into the ground.
32. What follows is offered as a tentative approach, but one that has already proved useful to teachers. 1 Fictional narrative.
33. There was no need for tentative steps of discovery but nevertheless it was as if this were the very first time.
34. Some of the eurypterids may even have made tentative excursions on to the land.
35. Our second tentative conclusion is that social services may have reduced people's subjective sense of inequality.
36. Handprints in a vast cave carry a tentative quality, a small gesture of presence.
37. There was nothing tentative about the touch of his lips, either.
38. The tentative concepts of the five finalists in a master plan design competition will go on view for the first time.
39. It was a tentative document that merely asked for provincial legislation enabling municipalities to buy, sell, and distribute electric power.
40. In the light of these remarks, the following very tentative conclusions may perhaps be advanced.
41. Now, even I was tentative about this undertaking, and I am well trained in these matters.
42. She couldn't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage.
43. Jim gave the liturgy planning team his tentative approval and waited to see how the community and the archdiocese would react.
44. Hauling it by its ugly leather straps she took a tentative step on the little stony path.
45. Hudson, the beautiful; handsome Hudson with the long list of girl-friends was tentative, gentle and unhurried.
46. The owners and the union have reached a tentative agreement to extend their deal and push the uncapped year back.
47. I therefore included it as a separate mode although my analysis remained highly tentative.
48. Few results are available yet on this theme, though some tentative conclusions may be drawn.
49. I would therefore propose that September 1993 be set as a tentative deadline for the confirmation of events, dates and locations.
50. Seven others were slightly tentative about it, with four of those saying they needed assurances they would face no new regulations.
51. Like Marxism, the theories of development have become more pluralistic and tentative.
52. By late February the study had been completed and a tentative plan worked out.
53. Women in particular should be on guard against apologizing for themselves indirectly by this sort of tentative behaviour.
54. A brilliant scientist, Hesswas unassuming about his talents and perhaps tentative about the new ideas he was presenting.
55. She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders.
56. Having settled her differences(Sentencedict.com ), she gave my hand a tentative lick.
57. But the steps taken so far have been tentative ones, forced by bitter economic realities.
58. Both moves were seen as tentative steps towards opening up the political system.
59. The departures screen Grand Central Station was no help, reading cancelled across the board because schedules were too tentative to post.
60. The study uses a methodology which combines elements of traditional legal scholarship with a tentative import of economic analysis.
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