Sentence examples for really tenuous from inspiring English sources

"You get used to this really tenuous existence.

"They are charged with trying to keep peace amidst a really tenuous situation, but it's so easy to make them look like the bad guys," says Pat Bradley, founder of CrisisAid.

Donnelly said the implication was that if the Pentagon does fully implement the 2011 defense cuts, "our ability to execute a global strategy is going to be really tenuous at best".

Was love really such a tenuous thing?

Could something that tenuous really bring a child into our lives?

So maybe it's time to acknowledge a core reality: People with skills can really thrive in this tenuous, networked society.

"Maybe they are not really surface structures, but tenuous clouds of hot gas at a certain altitude," he says.

I think it surprised both of us how tenuous our friendship really was.

"I just shut up and wondered if he could really detain me on the tenuous ground of verbal interference," Mr. Kay said.

Only al-Nusra has really held firm, managing a tenuous alliance with its more radical cousin, but even so it is estimated that at least 3,000 fighters from al-Nusra swapped their allegiance during this time.

Perhaps a sudden recognition of how tenuous their control really was came late to a party who mostly sleepwalked through the summer as if their retention was foreordained.