Sentence examples for as tenuous from inspiring English sources

The phrase "as tenuous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is weak, fragile, or insubstantial, often in a comparative context.
Example: "The connection between the two theories is as tenuous as the evidence supporting them."
Alternatives: "as fragile" or "as weak".

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This can be as tenuous as you like.

The Browns' record, 2-5, remains dismal, and Mangini's job is as tenuous as ever.

The link between the benign and the brutal is not as tenuous as one might think.

It is almost as tenuous as the distinction I might make between our respective birthplaces.

In slums residents in tin shacks and plastic tents siphon electricity from the city grid with wire as tenuous as spider's silk.

In 1969, I was a freelance writer, one of many in Washington, and our status then was as tenuous as it is now.

Philadelphia went ahead, 27-21, with 56 seconds left in the first quarter, but the lead was as tenuous as it was rare in this series.

To Americans, their country's connection to West Africa's first independent nation is as tenuous as an occasional mention in seventh-grade history books.

But will fans listen to what it has to say? Research suggests the link between sport and behaviour change isn't as tenuous as it sounds.

He threw a bone to critics by at last sacking Donald Rumsfeld, the day-to-day manager of the Iraq mess, whose relationship with reality had been as tenuous as that of his boss.

The business case was just as tenuous as that of the failed Lincoln Blackwood, yet with an 11-year run the Escalade EXT disproved the notion that a luxury pickup is a sales-proof oxymoron.

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