Tenuous used in a sentence

Tenuous in a sentence as an adjective

\n And in swelling it became more tenuous, less brilliant, less turbulent.

To dismiss that as child's play is to live in a fantasy world and to have, plainly, a tenuous grip on reality.

The only place in the US that has a halfway legitimate claim universal ownership of that name is NYC and that's tenuous at best.

Not once have i felt like i was in an unsafe situation, though i am a decent sized guy. but there is a lot of "color" out there - old guys pressing me to get a hotel room with them and get it on, or people with bad ***** and/or tenuous grips on reality.

The explanation in this article seems pretty tenuous and the title could at least do with being "British police might have been duped by LulzSec into arresting the wrong person".

Can it really be true that womens' interest in tech is so fragile and tenuous that vague insults and sexual innuendo are enough to discourage them from it entirely?

It's a much more tenuous situation when you're working on OSS in the same domain as your commercial software, even if the entire technology stack is completely different.

Maybe they would detect a simulation which has those features, but the assumption that it would work like that, because that's how we'd do it here and now in this 3-d space is I think a very tenuous one.

He took advantage of the situation to push an issue his employers were not aware that he was pursuing which then put them and all of their other employees and their contract with Google in a tenuous position.

Your friend, though, knows that correlation is not causation and the relationship between our self-sacrifice and our economic well being is as tenuous as the relationship between uncle Ernie's lucky Elvis shirt and that time hit the jackpot on the penny slots.

All the mechanisms for preventing abuse could have been done in a much more heavy-handed way, such as by being tied to a central email account that you use to authenticate to dozens of critical services you depend on in your life, that can be yanked and shut down at any time, with a very tenuous appeal process.