Sentence examples for a tenuous thing from inspiring English sources
Was love really such a tenuous thing?
"It's such a tenuous thing," Pierce said.
"Acting is such a tenuous thing," he said.
THE barometer measuring happiness inside a New York apartment tower is a tenuous thing, forever threatening to swing from content to disgruntled at the slightest provocation.
What it lacks, most interestingly, is the sticky hothouse eroticism of some Dutch colonial writing, the ponderously knowing omens that empire is only a tenuous thing.
They wanted their picture taken in front of that flag, as if our doing so somehow validated the change in their country, which still seemed such a tenuous thing.
The world they had built together seemed a fragile, tenuous thing; one stray word and it might collapse entirely — and in a week it would be over, no matter how well they behaved.
I think confidence is a very tenuous thing in life".
It always seemed a tenuous affair at best.
A football season is always a tenuous proposition; bad things will happen.
But in changing the game Pitchfork helped create its own ecosystem of stars, making the idea of being indie, whatever that might mean, less of a frightening, tenuous, risky thing.
