For form's sake, I made a tentative gesture as though I might touch her.

A second face edges in from the left in a tentative gesture of intimacy (another Bourgeois motif).

Then he reached for her, a tentative gesture.

Uncertainly, raising one hand in a tentative self-pointing gesture, he got to his feet.

Tanis saw them make nervous, tentative gestures toward the wide cloth belts they wore tied around their flowing robes.

Although the film makes tentative gestures toward being a full-blown biographical portrait, it isn't that.

The strange robot hesitated for a moment, and made an oddly tentative gesture with one hand.

Let's just say that I'm here to observe as a sort of tentative gesture in the direction of ecumenicism.

Alternating attempts at forthright assertion of authority and tentative gestures of conciliation exacerbated the situation.

"I am Jolie," she whispered, her hands making a tentative gesture toward her bosom.