Sample Sentences for
tenuous
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    The theory sounded impressive, but the evidence behind it was tenuous
    tenuous = weak
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    Its link to the rest of France is tenuous: a causeway, a bridge, a spit of sand.†  (source)
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    The situation at home had become even more tenuous.†  (source)
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    With that, he broke with the tenuous existence that he had created in the village.†  (source)
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    I started tenuously down the fixed lines, stiff with dread.†  (source)
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    Presumably the notes which we hear at such moments tend to spread out before our eyes, over surfaces greater or smaller according to their pitch and volume; to trace arabesque designs, to give us the sensation of breath or tenuity, stability or caprice.†  (source)
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    As if to emphasize the tenuousness of Levi Saunders' existence, he became violently ill the day following his bar mitzvah and was taken by ambulance to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Your own position is very tenuous, you know.†  (source)
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    He hovered tenuously between life and death for three days.†  (source)
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    A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten.†  (source)
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    From his eyes I could tell that Pearce recognized the subtlety and tenuousness of both our connection and our enmity.†  (source)
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    Two, she has a place however tense and tenuous at the moment—to live.†  (source)
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    Signs of renewed collective enterprise and an increased sense of national identity are the Olympic games, founded in 766 B.C., the establishment of an oracular center for all Greeks at Delphi, and a new wave of colonization and exploration that expanded the Greek horizons from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Black Sea beyond the Troad.7 It has been noted that a main concern of The Iliad is the difficulties of keeping together a massive but tenuously united coalition.†  (source)
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