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How To Use tenuous In A Sentence

• In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy.
• The Bush stooges and their lackeys in the media know that they are hanging by a tenuous thread that is unraveling ever faster and faster.
• These comments provide a glimpse into the thinking of a layer of extremely wealthy Hollywood liberals or erstwhile liberals, whose commitment to democratic rights is increasingly tenuous.
• Women were banned from competing and spectating at the original Games, and shot put is barely 100 years old, so the direct linkage with the ancient past was tenuous.
• With few marketable skills or capital upon their arrival, Irish men secured only a tenuous foothold in the province's secondary labour market, working as labourers, harvesters, ploughmen and general farm hands.
• With few marketable skills or capital upon their arrival, Irish men secured only a tenuous foothold in the province's secondary labour market, working as labourers, harvesters, ploughmen and general farm hands.
• It was a pragmatic alliance, but tenuous from the start. The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
• In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy.
• Now coming up with tenuous rationales for persuading unwitting students to choose your major is hardly unique to any field of study.
• This is probably the most tenuous link yet to the 2012 Olympics. Times, Sunday Times