tenuity

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The bar that has been tilted into the most perfect compactness, has now to acquire the utmost possible tenuity.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Another and yet more remarkable observation is on record which goes far to prove not only the tenuity, but the transparency of a cometary nucleus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

Its two cardinal defects are lack of simplicity of treatment, and tenuity or triviality of the subject, or plot.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane

The bond between the States is of amazing tenuity.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard