Sentence examples for were tenuous from inspiring English sources

The family fortunes were tenuous.

Precedents were tenuous and few.

They added that any therapeutic benefits were tenuous.

Even before he was shot by Bernhard Goetz, Cabey's connections to life were tenuous at best.

In 638 he placed the Bretons and the Gascons under nominal subjection, but ties with these peripheral peoples were tenuous.

Like mischief would result were tenuous claims sufficient to justify the trial court's indulgence of inquiry into the legitimacy of evidence in the Government's possession.

The calm is tenuous.

It's tenuous, obviously.

However, the estimate is tenuous.

Their relationship is tenuous now.

But perceptions are tenuous.