tenuously

Example Sentences

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Ms. Goodman finds the right measure of sugar in this novel-in-stories depicting three generations of Rubinsteins, an East Coast Jewish-American clan tenuously bound by love, ritual and guilt trips.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

“These are folks who have multiple homes to their names, and the tenants are clinging tenuously to their only home,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

Even before the Great Stink of 1858, three separate cholera outbreaks had already been tenuously linked to the river by public health authorities.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2023

All those come together in the finale of the enormous Fourth, a layered collage of tunes and textures that, under Dudamel’s baton, feels as unsettled and tenuously harmonious as America itself.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

On May 28, following two and a half months of prodigious effort, a high camp was dug tenuously into the Southeast Ridge at 27,900 feet.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer