The tone was like a knife, severing any tenuous bond that might remain between them.

In every way, Raknal Station represented the collective might of two great galactic powers, as well as the tenuous bond that held them together.

Words have a ghastly way of shattering delicate situations and snapping tenuous bonds.

Her action would irrevocably sever the tenuous bond that had formed between herself and Gray, the fragile trust she doubted came easily to him.

They had forged such a tenuous bond this morning.

Their excitement was a tenuous bond between them.

"We can pray," I tell her gently, thinking again of Thomas who spared me, of those tenuous bonds between the living and the dead.

The sound reverberated through the air, fracturing the tenuous bonds which held what remained of his consciousness.

The first tenuous bond between them had been tempered to steel links over the two years they had been together.

The tenuous bonds that hold two suburban families together have finally come undone.