Sentence examples for a tenuous relationship from inspiring English sources

Their disagreement served as fitting punctuation for a tenuous relationship.

Chinese stocks have long had a tenuous relationship with economic reality, but the current rally has gone to new extremes.

This is a man, after all, who has only a tenuous relationship with the straight and narrow.

The bassy drones and ominous swells evoke the atmosphere and the dread of a Ridley Scott movie and have, at best, a tenuous relationship to pop music.

Ms. Banks, a major-label signee more beloved of fashionistas than of hip-hop fans, has, at best, a tenuous relationship to hip-hop's center.

O'Neil, 42, had a tenuous relationship with James L. Dolan, the Garden chairman — a fact that was well known among people with ties to both men.

It's important to mention that Twitter has had a tenuous relationships with its developers.

Twitter has had a tenuous relationships with its developers, and the new portal is one way to improve communications.

When an athlete transgresses — cheats on his wife, or takes drugs, or skips practice, or loafs in a game — an already tenuous relationship is threatened with ruin.

Some readers may think less of a novel because it has a more tenuous relationship to reality than they would like.

But in the Île-de-France region around Paris, on the contrary, the medieval traditions of French masonry construction, combined with the abundance of good freestone, caused theorists from the Renaissance to the time of the French Revolution to favour a less tenuous relationship between the external appearance of a building and the system by which it was constructed.