War had broken out, as was usual between the gangs, in a somewhat tentative fashion at first sight.

When the group disbanded I went to write up our decisions in tentative fashion.

Although two or three Chinese restaurants in Nassau and Suffolk Counties have made them available in a cautious, tentative fashion, a major player recently waded in.

At length there came a time when Mr. Fratton, urged on by curiosity, stepped slightly closer to the edge of professional discretion than he usually permitted himself, to remark in a tentative fashion: "You did not know Sir Andrew very well, did you?"

Tunesmith would not have begun his intrusions in any tentative fashion, Louis thought.

This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously.

By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest.

But perhaps- Well, as I told you, what I mainly want to learn, in my clumsy and tentative fashion, is what drives him.

But when, in November, winter came in tentative fashion, laying down snowfields that were swept away by a weakening sun, they needed him no longer.

I was testing my environment in a tentative fashion by then.