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Meanings of tentative way in anglès

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Usage of tentative way in anglès
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But all this was accomplished at first in a humdrum and tentative way.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
2
In a slow and tentative way, then, Herminia crept back into unrecognised recognition.
The Woman Who Did
3
In an elliptical and tentative way, he was trying to make friends with her.
The Scar
4
He started, possibly, in a merely tentative way by slugging one of the family circle.
The Prince and Betty
5
Still social life went on, and in a tentative way intellectual life was making some progress.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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In a tentative way she was in revolt against an apple-pie order of existence which was being forced upon her.
The Titan
7
She belonged to the younger set which was that season trying recklessness, in a tentative way, as a new fashion.
The Head of the House of Coombe
8
He halted, with a hand held out over her arm, and she paused as well, in a reluctant, tentative way.
The Market-Place
9
The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East.
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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He and I have been exchanging looks for the past year as Susan and Caleb flirt in the tentative way known only to the Abnegation.
Divergent
11
-We'llgive starting over a shot,-I said, and we smiled at each other in a tentative way.
Dead ever after
12
"I put it forward in a tentative way," he said, in the same mild and musing tone.
The Candidate: A Political Romance
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"If by chance you come out alive," said the Mayor, in a tentative way, "we should like to have news of you."
Across Unknown South America
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