What is "tenuously"

Usage examples of "tenuously".

She had never experienced sexual pleasure other than fleetingly and tenuously in those early days of their courtship, when Julian had teased her with kisses that promised so much and yet in the end meant so very little.

For an hour he walked the streets of Moonlight Cove, deep into the residential neighborhoods, where there were no streetlamps and where trees and houses seemed to float within the mist, as if they were not rooted to the earth but tenuously tethered and in danger of breaking loose.

Now the crack widens and the ice is too far back in it to be of use - but the cramponned boots can be stuck in the crack and turned sideways, to stick tenuously into the thin ice coating the crack's interior.

Starfare's Gem skidded in a mad rush along the seas, tenuously poised between life and death.