The audience response on opening night was duly respectful but also somewhat tentative.

Even the focus on Moroccan militants seemed somewhat tentative.

Pippen played 20 minutes in the first half tonight, looking rusty at times, and his movements appeared somewhat tentative.

I attended one of his classes on a Sunday afternoon with six other students, two men, both somewhat tentative, and four other women.

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

After a somewhat tentative start, the concert hit its groove.

Shaw's explorations of that underworld were late in coming and somewhat tentative.

She produced a smile which appeared genuine, if somewhat tentative.

There was a somewhat tentative smile on the face of the man who had spoken.

The conversations are casual and somewhat tentative, as they would likely be among strangers at a gym.