11.   I had a tenuous connection to the then-Boston Patriots while living in those cold climes.

12.   In reality, the destination charge has only a tenuous connection with actual shipping costs.

13.   Membership in the mob was their own tenuous connection to celebrity, as close as they could come to it in their humdrum lives.

14.   My tenuous connection with reality has finally evaporated.

15.   Penny had heard scandalous tales about him for years, because he had a tenuous connection to her family.

16.   Others sensed only a tenuous connection to their new, adopted country and its government.

17.   That makes for a tenuous connection between Latin American stocks and the Nasdaq.

18.   Throughout the day, many people with even the most tenuous connections to the one-time Washington powerhouse approached as if he were an old friend.

19.   The only tenuous connection, other than the date, was the presence in the Oklahama building of an ATF office.