In book after book, he treads a tenuous line.

Many sites, she said, are skirting a tenuous line between legal information and legal advice, which is the application of law to specific circumstances.

All too well, she was aware of that tenuous line still separating her from instability.

Both were tenuous lines leading to Gault.

He was no Getfen, really, except by the most tenuous lines of blood.

However, this is a somewhat tenuous line of reasoning and relies, for the most part, on inference.

My tenuous line of logic was ready to snap at this point so I strengthened it with some akvavit and a fresh cigar.

Sarah felt herself drifting out away from him, their conversation a tenuous line that held them together.

The medicinal cannabis business, which straddles a tenuous line between legitimate and illegal, is booming.

Then he jerked his hand back into his lap, leaving the cigarette in the tray, spinning out a long tenuous line of smoke.