Looking up at her, Jerry felt his tenuous grip on consciousness slipping.

To achieve such things, he apparently began with people who already had a tenuous grip on reality.

Do single mothers have a tenuous grip on the job market?

Images were becoming blurry and his mind seemed to hold only a tenuous grip on its own identity.

Martin also believes that the Court is the entity with a tenuous grip on the real world.

If the drug did anything at all, it was only to weaken the tenuous grip of my control.

He seemed to be getting a tenuous grip on himself.

The tenuous grip they have on continuance is what's at issue here.

"I'm not," she said, finally losing the tenuous grip on her temper.

"Phone Booth" begins to lose its tenuous grip on reality once the law appears.