Sentence examples for a few tenuous from inspiring English sources

When I pressed him about the business logic of continuing to print them, he tried a few tenuous rationales, finally landing on, "This is my magazine, and I will print what I want".

I have doggedly clung to a few, tenuous finger-holds on the upward climb that is my career path in scientific research.

The Montauk Project connection was lost in development, but the final version of Stranger Things still seems to share a few tenuous similarities with Kessler's original short film, like disappearing kids and buggy technology and some freaky-ass shit in the sky, but those tropes aren't exactly unique to the Montauk short to begin with.

The few tenuous signs of peace during my first experience were now rooted in genuine hope.

A silly thing to do, but it took up a few pages and provided a tenuous link to Louisiana.

Words, the young Mr. Obama realized, had the power "to transform": "with the right words everything could change -— South Africa, the lives of ghetto kids just a few miles away, my own tenuous place in the world".

The Shabab, which has pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, is now left with a tenuous grip on a few small towns in southern and central Somalia.

The announcements came as the international community searched for a means to break a bloody battlefield deadlock that has killed hundreds in the contested cities of Misurata and Ajdabiya and left the rebels in tenuous control of a few major coastal cities in their campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

A TENUOUS ceasefire agreement and a few days of relative quiet have provided war-weary Israelis and Palestinians with a glimmer of hope.

Lin Biao was not yet strong enough to take Manchuria, but he had the Nationalist armies hemmed up in a few major cities and with only a tenuous hold on the railways leading southward.

Given the tenuous nature of G.M.'s survival a few years ago, it's faintly amazing that Chevy now builds a muscle car capable of lapping the Nürburgring hot on the heels of a machine like the Porsche 911 Turbo.