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UK
/tˈɛnjuːəsli/
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ADVERB
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in a tenuous manner
his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars
How To Use tenuously In A Sentence
- Assembled from various stabilizers, wing sections, nose cones, pipes, fuselage chunks, and other random parts, all held tenuously in place by an improvised web of twisted wire, the piece is a monument of stored energy.
- The presence of live actors and real objects anchors you, albeit tenuously, in the world.
- Bloom is an archetype of the modern protagonist, marginal, in a sense deracinated, tenuously connected to his culture.
- His works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars.
- Only the deeper contrast of the figure differentiates it from the vegetation and tenuously relegates the forest to a safe atmospheric distance.
- his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars
- For a place so famous for its roads, Chaco is connected to the modern world tenuously at best: The only access is over washboard dirt roads that can turn to gumbo after a storm.
- Her technique hinges on the unarticulated and the tenuously suggestive, even the subliminal.
- The script (co-written with fellow Boosh star Dave Brown) is almost entirely devoid of wit, featuring video clips of Eleanor swearing a lot about the glam-rock band Poison and of the moment – tenuously related to the show's groupie conceit – she was gazumped on Britain's Got Talent by Susan Boyle. Rich Fulcher: An Evening with Eleanor, the Tour Whore
- Aircraft wheels could yet again be groping tenuously for the asphalt of Kai Tak, Hong Kong's unlamented previous airport, if private pilots and other aviation enthusiasts get their way.