With the passage of time, the club's ties to New England have become ever more tenuous.

Year by year, connections with the northern homeland had become more tenuous, and the threat from the south greater.

By the decade of the 1760s however, life in Nicoya was becoming more and more tenuous.

"We were all a little on edge," Shetland said, discovering that his dislike of the pilot was becoming tenuous.

With the ruble gyrating like a yo-yo, their already difficult existence has become even more tenuous.

-and of a sudden he felt his hold on that claim becoming tenuous.

He didn't add that this was becoming increasingly tenuous.

Bonanno's hold on his family had become tenuous in any event, however.

Now the pixels fled her body, as if evaporating; she was becoming tenuous, unstable.

Three shadows loomed up out of the mounds, growing, but becoming more and more tenuous as they did.