Sentence examples for a tenuous place from inspiring English sources

Why would anyone insist on staying, in such a tenuous place?

Free's sharp-tongued sister Bebbie (April Yvette Thompson) clings fiercely to a tenuous place in her cousin's apartment.

Even today, free jazz and Miles Davis's electric music, for some, hold a tenuous place in jazz history.

What's more, as my colleague Greg Kumparak pointed out today, Bitcoin itself is still in a tenuous place, policy-wise.

He occupies a more tenuous place in the hearts of listeners.

But she is in a tenuous position.

Mexico has watched its world ranking drop five spots since 2012 — to No. 20 from No. 15 — and has limped into a tenuous fourth-place position in the region's current World Cup qualifying tournament.

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".

But county cricket, struggling to hold its tenuous place in the skittish national consciousness and having endured a lacklustre start to the County Championship, has now binned its most prestigious competition for a few weeks in favour of its most lucrative (the NatWest T20 Blast) and its most unnecessary (the Royal London Cup).

Lethem need only mention that a radio is tuned to "an AM station permanently playing 'Dream Weaver' or 'Fly Like An Eagle'", and we are intended to perceive that Dylan is doomed to lose his tenuous place in Mingus's crew, destined to end up in a Vermont college listening to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

We are trapped in a cycle of violence; it is time to understand that it is our own policies that are perpetuating our tenuous place in the world.