Sentence examples for to tenuous from inspiring English sources
adjective
Thin in substance or consistency.
- The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
It has failed to reach its full potential, however, due to tenuous relations with its neighbors.
I let it run rampant, and these are the results" — a jagged decade of health and productive work alternating with relapses, hospitalizations, electroshock treatments and slow climbs back to tenuous health.
In one of his 1951 poems, "A Vision of Four Musicians", we are treated to "tenuous music" played by travelling musicians and "fragile as an echo from the journey they came".
On the issue of copyright limitations and exceptions for blind, visually impaired and other reading disabled persons, over time we have seen a move from resistance to the issue, to tenuous acceptance, to full agreement that this is an issue that demands a solution at WIPO.
The tonality of these colors goes from intense to tenuous.
For 8 years, I held on to tenuous visiting appointments at two Ivy League American universities.
Meanwhile, they received little compensation in return and spent years away from home to live tenuous hand-to-mouth existences as factory or construction workers.
"When it gets into nephews and cousins," said Ed Mooney, a wealth strategist with BNY Mellon in Manhattan, "it tends to be more tenuous" to agree to co-sign.
The important thing was to react correctly to his tenuous relationship with the truth.
That would be a sharp reversal to the tenuous calm that has begun to take shape in the West Bank.
That may be dispiriting to those who perceive their identity to be tenuous, but pretending otherwise is counterproductive.
