tenuity
[ tuh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-, te- ]
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How to use tenuity in a sentence
The air seemed what we call “hollow” and had apparently hardly enough tenuity to convey sounds.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceBy this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardness.
He was frightened by the expression of her face, whose pallor and extreme tenuity had something fatal about it.
The Trapper's Daughter | Gustave AimardIn only one case, I believe I saw bifurcating cement-ducts, of extreme tenuity, viz.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles DarwinThe tenuity of the film increases; its cohesion is overcome; lakelets are formed, and they merge into each other.
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