So it went on, with the children playing, the women grooming or making tentative sexual contact, and a display of noisy aggression by the men.

This was not the first tentative contact by a race which knew nothing of man.

In doing so, she severed her tentative contact with Kennit as well.

He groaned as she made her first tentative contact.

But what these tentative contacts mean remains unclear, our correspondent adds.

He waited until she relaxed to make his tentative contact more firm.

But they expressed hope that it would encourage the tentative diplomatic contacts the Clinton administration has pursued in recent years.

At the same time, there have been some tentative contacts between Israelis and Palestinians.

That testing involves only the most tentative physical contact.

He sighted the island on March 31, 1777 and made tentative contact with some of the people over the next few days.