Sentence examples for have a tenuous from inspiring English sources

The place may have a tenuous atmosphere.

And both have a tenuous hold on the job.

In a place where hurricanes are the local calamity, one might expect history to have a tenuous grip.

The smaller companies have a tenuous existence and cannot guarantee secure employment or make substantial investments in employee training.

They look up everything online and as a result have a tenuous grasp of the finer points of alphabetical order.

In recent years members seemed to have a tenuous connection to the academy; some were completely oblivious to the institution's decision to sell the Hudson River paintings.

The Democrats have a fragile, tenuous majority in the State Senate.

Rhea has a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Coughlin, again, had a tenuous hold on his job.

Coach Isiah Thomas has a tenuous hold on his locker room.

He has a tenuous 51% control of Turkcell through an inverse pyramid of shareholdings (see chart).