Sentence examples for tenuous grip from inspiring English sources

That tenuous grip was ripped away by ruthless opponents.

For now he retains a tenuous grip on his own party.

The goal for Skinnygirl is to transcend Frankel's tenuous grip on fame.

Americans -- seemingly bland, ordinary Americans -- often have a remarkably tenuous grip on reality.

Government cash helps those laid off keep a tenuous grip on a normal life.

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

It is her gauzy garment, and it is held in her narrow and tenuous grip, in her delicate hand.

Nobody envies you.' Pirsig was able to keep a tenuous grip on his former self, despite the treatment.

This points to one of the possible justifications for Blair's actions, namely that he has a tenuous grip on reality.

Again, though, Jericho has a tenuous grip on the "continuously inhabited" tag, having been largely abandoned for centuries on end.

The government has had a tenuous grip there since coming to power in April after bloody rioting in the capital that ousted Mr. Bakiyev.