Sentence examples for a tenuous affair from inspiring English sources

It always seemed a tenuous affair at best.

Was love really such a tenuous thing?

"It's such a tenuous thing," Pierce said.

"Acting is such a tenuous thing," he said.

Hope is a tenuous thing.

Yet beneath the bitterness coloring national affairs — down at the level of neighborhood, family, coffee shop, tavern — a tenuous belief in the collective good remains, perhaps moderating national dismay.

A tenuous calm reigns.

It was a tenuous line.

That is a tenuous assertion.

It was a tenuous existence.

The place may have a tenuous atmosphere.