It's a tenuous thread and the slightest jar is capable of snapping it.

Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all.

It was one hell of a tenuous thread.

The tenuous thread that had, a moment before, seemed to connect them, had vanished.

She was surprised; this was not the tenuous thread they had struggled so hard to achieve yesterday.

After all, his theory, if it could be called a theory, was based on a single tenuous thread of evidence.

"If the bonding has begun, there will be a tenuous thread of directional awareness."

But the concept is a tenuous thread on which to hang an art show.

He was still connected by a tenuous thread to the Jaspers oneness.

It was such a tenuous thread that Cranston was following.