How to Use tentative in a Sentence

tentative

adjective

• We have tentative plans for the weekend.
• And the road to even a tentative agreement has been a rocky one.
  — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2020
• The original board even depicts the tentative steps of a boy in a leg brace.
  — Alexander B. Joy, The Atlantic, 28 July 2019
• The date goes smoothly enough: a moonlit chat on a dark rooftop gives way to a tentative kiss.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• These exchanges at the end of the day are initiated with half nods and tentative smiles.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
• There have been a few tentative discoveries in the mass gap so far.
  — quantamagazine.org, 27 Jan. 2021
• The tentative plan is for the House to try to vote on a stop gap budget on Thursday.
  — Jamie Dupree, AJC.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• That could put him on track for a tentative return within about two weeks.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2021
• The aides stressed that all plans were still tentative and that the initial events would likely not be rallies.
  — Eliza Collins and Michael C. Bender, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Some writers might be tentative about the limelight, but not him.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2021
• Members will vote on the tentative agreement next month.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• The tentative agreements deliver on all of these — and more.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
• But even our laughter is tentative these days, and the jokes just remind us of the chaos that seems to beset the country.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2017
• At first, his movement is a little tentative, full of stops and starts.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• My tentative plans are to gerrymander all of those crazy libs rights out of the section.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• Biden’s query to Deng back then probed the boundaries of the tentative partnership.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
• That first tentative step a child takes eventually gives way to a run.
  — oregonlive, 8 June 2020
• Drescher herself has fired back at critics of the tentative deal.
  — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
• The same is true of Jae Crowder, who has been very tentative.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The tentative agreement comes after three days of striking.
  — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Hayes, more than anything, looks wide-eyed and tentative.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2021
• The tentative pact is to go before the school board on Feb. 16.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2021
• The government may resort to them, but its mandate is a bit tentative.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2018
• His movements were a little tentative, his shots didn't look quite right.
  — David Brandt, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
• Click here for a tentative beer list, and here for subject-to-change summer cocktails.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 2 July 2018
• Their legal battle has a tentative trial date set for next year.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2022
• There was a crying need, in the tentative early days of populist toryism, for a voice that could bring the gospel to the lumpen.
  — Christopher Hitchens, Times Literary Supplement, 30 Nov. 1990
• But even a tentative deal would be seen as a significant achievement for both sides.
  — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2020
• Then there are recordings with more tentative release dates.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
• His tentative plan is to hold a normal class in September.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2021

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