perilously in English

adverb

['perɪləslɪ]

dangerously, hazardously, in a risky manne

Use "perilously" in a sentence

1. Supplies are perilously low.

2. The track snaked perilously upwards.

3. We came perilously close to disaster.

4. Wouldn't it come perilously close to desecration?

5. Karpov, the champion, came perilously close to losing.

6. In the meantime the financial system remains perilously fragile.

7. But as it turned out his majority was perilously narrow.

8. The jobless queue is getting perilously close to the 4m mark.

9. He had backed away, had stood perilously on the parapet.

10. They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.

11. 14 They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.

12. I was perilously close to being touched once and for all.

13. Panicked, angry and perilously close to tears, Isabel sprang for the door.

14. Last season's away form led to flirting with relegation and we went perilously close.

15. But he was perilously close to the edge of the crumbling cliff.

16. The wick lay almost flat in a perilously small amount of wax.

17. None of it registered, because she was fighting tears that were perilously near.

18. 14 Last season's away form led to flirting with relegation and we went perilously close.

19. Our high and rising house prices rest perilously on short-term interest rates.

20. She came perilously close to getting herself killed in her attempt to break the world record.

21. Twice I ran perilously close to the edge, my eyes dazzled and eyelids drooping.

22. I eventually began to suspect that their devotion to organizing things comes perilously close to an obsession.

23. If beauty is the chink in our perilously thin female armor, motherhood is our Achilles' heel.

24. Pooley was nearing the end of the bar counter by now and the Swan's doorway was perilously close.

25. In winter the few cars that make it up the mountains skid along the roads, perilously close to ravines.

26. I suppose women students no longer brush their teeth at sinks positioned perilously close, I always thought, to the urinals.

27. In fact, at one point, Berni did come perilously close to being let out to play via a third-floor window.

28. Choir and audience wave to each other when the singing is over, some of the little boys leaning perilously over the parapets.

29. During the battle five Troll Slayers distinguished themselves by attacking and destroying three Trolls which were perilously close to crushing Duregar himself.

30. 3 During the battle five Troll Slayers distinguished themselves by attacking and destroying three Trolls which were perilously close to crushing Duregar himself.

31. Imprisoned in a bamboo cage perched perilously, and Agonizingly, in water, he forced himself to remain constantly awake to keep death at bay.

32. The area is a key habitat for some critically endangered wildlife such as the Amur tiger and the Amur leopard, which sits perilously close to the brink of extinction.

33. ‘The inherent Abusiveness of our capitalistic, unloving, unaccepting society revisits itself in the family, producing narcissistically wounded individuals.’ ‘But his stridency and his Abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen.’

34. ‘The inherent Abusiveness of our capitalistic, unloving, unaccepting society revisits itself in the family, producing narcissistically wounded individuals.’ ‘But his stridency and his Abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen.’