Sentence examples for tenuous existence from inspiring English sources

It was a tenuous existence.

Lower-round picks live a more tenuous existence.

"You get used to this really tenuous existence.

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

There was, for example, a tradition of fortified towns, stemming from Roman fortification, that enjoyed a tenuous existence throughout the Dark Ages, particularly in the Mediterranean world.

He was leaving behind not only the comfortable career of an officer but a pilot's tenuous, exalted existence.

I realized in those days how tenuous our existence is; we have only one life, and it must be lived to the fullest not someday, but now.

Often, species with such a tenuous hold on existence just fade into extinction.

The tiny school experienced 15 years of tenuous and peripatetic existence until it moved to New Haven, a thriving seaport and Connecticut's largest metropolis (population 1,500).

Recent events like the 2001 terrorist attacks or the devastation brought about by storms like Sandy remind us of the tenuous nature of existence.