Sentence examples for as tenuous as it is from inspiring English sources

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.

Any major deviation now would destroy whatever continuity has already been established (as tenuous as it may be), and a massive rewrite does not appear to be an option.

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.

It is hard to imagine that humanity's grasp of the past, so laboriously achieved and tenuous as it is, would lightly be loosened.

The Yankees' position atop the American League East, tenuous as it is, could become even deeper in doubt without Teixeira, their leading run-producer.

Fresh starts are as tenuous as they are hard to come by.

The Giants' 10-7 lead was as improbable as it was tenuous.

As many have pointed out, this is just the latest chapter in an unending campaign against Sterling that has seen him pilloried for crimes as tenuous as "being tired" and "buying his mum a sink".

The park isn't a particularly large or beautiful one — it's only five or six square blocks, with a good portion devoted to playing fields and an athletic track — but it's a substantial patch of green in a neighborhood filled with warehouses and treeless sidewalks, and it embraces the whole community, from hipsters to Hasids (as tenuous as that relationship might be).

What my mother probably didn't realize is my life was as tenuous at 58 pounds as it was during times I weighed twice as much.