Sentence examples for a tenuous grasp from inspiring English sources

His response revealed a tenuous grasp of his situation.

For a veteran editor, Athill has a tenuous grasp of royalties.

Strunk and White had "a tenuous grasp of grammar," and George Orwell contradicted himself.

How had I made it past 30 with such a tenuous grasp on science?

But the public has only a tenuous grasp on just what the dogs are capable of.

Despite being noticeably manic, with difficulty caring for myself and a tenuous grasp on reality, I looked for employment.

Trump's an unorthodox sort with, by most accounts, a fairly tenuous grasp on modern technologies.

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And a generation of young Republican strategists wring their hands about the party's tenuous grasp of social media and outmoded mechanisms of outreach in a story by Robert Draper in The New York Times Magazine this weekend.

But reason was not the strong suit of the military junta that ruled Japan; their ever more tenuous grasp on reality made Hitler look like a strategist.

While I worry that we didn't do enough to help our daughter retain her tenuous grasp on Mandarin (even in China she was in a largely English-speaking environment), research like this helps me to understand why she processes things differently still.