Sentence examples for a tenuous order from inspiring English sources

It's a tenuous order — "Phone my family, tell them I'm lost on the sidewalk," Tweedy sings — but a real one, at least for now.

That is what happened in Iraq, and it was hugely expensive for us to rebuild a new, and still tenuous, order there.

When God unleashes Satan on the tenuous order of Job's world, things fall apart fast, in the lurid style that Mr. Bradshaw favors.

They look up everything online and as a result have a tenuous grasp of the finer points of alphabetical order.

By now, his predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had a tenuous grasp of the First Amendment's guaranteed right of peaceable assembly, would have probably ordered the police to clear the area — with water cannon, if necessary.

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.

But she is in a tenuous position.