Sentence examples for tenuous as a from inspiring English sources

With their division standing tenuous as a result of a three-game losing streak, the Giants cannot afford to pay too much attention to what the outcome means for anyone but themselves.

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.

The sad truth is that sex cinema is getting just as tenuous as any other type of entertainment job.

King has a fine feel for military matters, underscoring the brutality of laying siege to a city and the remarkable lack of discipline among soldiers -- and their lack of loyalty, less surprising given that they were fighting to serve tyrants whose legitimacy was often as tenuous as that of a pope's son's.

What more artful symbol could we possess for the frailty and invincibility of love, of earthly rescue, than the way in which David's deliverance springs from something as tenuous as the memory of a memory of a possible caress?

He had a graceful if tenuous gift as a lyrical poet and was a versatile and accomplished translator.

Yet, Manning isn't going quietly; he is dominating Super Bowl week in a city he has dominated since he joined the Colts in 1998, appearing as an ambassador for the city despite his tenuous status as a resident.

In 1976, when I moved to Los Angeles, I desperately wanted a Mercedes 450 SLC, a car that was — even in used form — far more than I deserved or could afford at my entry-level, highly tenuous work as a scriptwriter.

The Moon has an atmosphere so tenuous as to be nearly vacuum, with a total mass of less than 10 MT. The surface pressure of this small mass is around 3 × 10−15atm (0.3 nPa); it varies with the lunar day.

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.

The piping around which the beams of protons whizz must be maintained at a vacuum as tenuous as interplanetary space.