It was also no surprise when Spike Owen's tentative toes around second probably cost Abbott an inning-ending double play.

SUNDERLAND have become the first dog track to dip a tentative toe into the contentious Sunday racing pool.

Mitch Miller left Columbia in 1965, and the company dipped a tentative toe into the emerging rock culture field by signing Paul Revere and the Raiders and The Byrds.

Garion asked her as she tested the water's temperature with a tentative toe.

I reached out a foot and nudged his leg with a tentative toe.

That's why you always stick a tentative toe into the water before committing yourself, and why you tend to spend so long in shoe shops.

And even her "Lonely Moments," which enabled Benny Goodman to dip a tentative toe into be-bop in 1947, had a more darkly ominous wallop in Friday's performance than the Goodman band managed to convey in its recording.

When we asked for your experiences and thoughts on the coalition's first 100 days in power, it was a tentative toe in the water: most stories about the coalition on guardian.co.uk elicit a pretty polarised - and usually negative - response.

To accommodate this annoyingly time-conscious person, Riso Gallo has dipped a tentative toe into the fast-food market - and come up with a range of (almost) instant risottos.

She slid sideways on the horse and reached with a long white leg, poked at Pelops with a tentative toe.