Sentence examples for become so tenuous from inspiring English sources
The numbers situation had become so tenuous that it was rare for a battalion to be able to field even 100 men during an exercise, so units accepted men that would not normally meet the medical requirements, indeed it has been stated that men who were "lame and practically blind" were allowed to join in an effort to improve numbers.
But after a few minutes, the relation between ideas becomes so vague, and the thread of your thoughts grows so tenuous, that only your cohorts... can understand you.
It becomes so unrealistic.
Indeed so tenuous has the president's office become that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former Socialist finance minister, recently took to calling Mr. Chirac a head of state "along the lines of the Queen of England".
"For years, my grip on life seemed so tenuous.
By James Kaplan "Every relationship is just so tenuous," David says.
The triumph of love in a Shakespeare comedy has rarely seemed so fragile, so tenuous.
"Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious," he went on.
He called a sales-tax cut "so tenuous that it is almost unbelievable".
So tenuous was his job status that he moonlighted at Home Depot, working nights.
