Evidence of the effect of such a tenuous existence is shown in the large number of abandoned houses which surround the village and outlying townland.

Now it was hate--but still my emotion for her, whether positive or negative, dominated my tenuous existence as a ghost.

But it is a tenuous existence.

Additionally, his official biography outlines a freelance writing career, a tenuous existence perhaps, but hardly the "corporate Stairmaster."

Like all Mojave settlements, regardless of size and history, this one seemed to have a tenuous existence.

The Liberal Party learned the peril of airing its dirty linen several years ago in fights over petitions that clearly demonstrated the party's tenuous existence.

Rutting animals such as he had forced her from her father's fine farm and into this tenuous existence.

The league has a somewhat tenuous existence.

Lower-round picks live a more tenuous existence.

Founded a year ago in the middle of ethnic rioting that ended in a worker's being shot to death, the university continues a tenuous existence.