Bit by bit the pain ebbed away, enough so that I tentatively opened one eye, then the other.

Izzy tentatively opened his eyes and saw he was no longer on the platform and began to sob anew.

When I tentatively opened one eye, red lightning struck in through my eyeball.

He looked longingly at the moonlight and tentatively opened his mouth to it.

His heart began to open tentatively to something he had not felt for years.

PriceSmart, which tentatively opened its first store here in 1997, now has 18, and plans to have 70 by the end of 2003.

I tentatively half opened a nostril, and frowned.

Last month, South Korea lifted almost all restrictions on the import of Japanese culture after tentatively opening its market in 1998.

Kerrick waited until his skin was completely dried before he tentatively opened one eye.

He tentatively opened one of the hard-boiled eggs in the sink, but it presented too substantial a problem for a breakfast dish.