Use of tenuous in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include tenuous at the start of sentence, tenuous at the end of sentence and tenuous in the middle of sentence

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tenuous at the end of sentence


  1. Her hold on power was now quite tenuous.
  2. For now, the band's travel plans are tenuous.
  3. My identity was becoming more and more tenuous.
  4. The difference, if it exists, is extremely tenuous.
  5. The link between her family and the King's is rather tenuous.
  6. The family link with her treasure, she says, is rather tenuous.
  7. His links with the organization turned out to be, at best, tenuous.
  8. The cultural and historical links between the many provinces were seen to be very tenuous.
  9. But then again, the logical link between gun ownership and the sales of gun magazines can hardly be called tenuous.

tenuous in the middle of sentence


  1. He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.
  2. We were only able to make a tenuous connection between the two robberies.
  3. But his links to his government are more tenuous, his loyalties less clear.
  4. Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all.
  5. They say they have only tenuous evidence Gary might have been involved in drugs.
  6. See how indefinite are our shapes, see how tenuous our hold on this world grows?
  7. The rising sun appeared like a swollen red ball suspended low in the tenuous mist.
  8. His lordship was attractive enough to give substance to otherwise tenuous connections.
  9. Collectors seem prepared to Hoover them up, however tenuous the connection with the liner.
  10. Shift work added to the tenuous links between incomer men and their Shetlander neighbours.
  11. Even at ten, I knew that I had become the guardian of her life and she the tenuous sleeper.
  12. The United Peace Alliance had only a tenuous connection with the organized Labour movement.
  13. The open mutiny by the military and police highlights Mr Wahid's tenuous grip on the presidency.
  14. This has such a tenuous physical basis that it can hardly account for the results it is claimed to produce.
  15. Mars has a very tenuous atmosphere that is so transparent that the surface cools off dramatically at night.
  16. Their ability to control and to recover control of a class is more tenuous, and their reputations are more vulnerable.
  17. The organization that flows from the office of shaikh was more tenuous, more negotiable, but crucial to making peaces.
  18. These rivals scratched out a tenuous existence through a combination of herding animals and marginal cultivation of the soil.
  19. Once again the tenuous thought that she'd previously failed to grasp hovered like a wraith on the verge of her consciousness.
  20. Various parties pursued conflicting objectives, often making tenuous alliances with each other for the sole purpose of expediency.

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