Use of perilously in Sentences. 29 Examples

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perilously in the middle of 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. They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.
  7. But as it turned out his majority was perilously narrow.
  8. He had backed away, had stood perilously on the parapet.
  9. I was perilously close to being touched once and for all.
  10. The wick lay almost flat in a perilously small amount of wax.
  11. The jobless queue is getting perilously close to the 4m mark.
  12. But he was perilously close to the edge of the crumbling cliff.
  13. Panicked, angry and perilously close to tears, Isabel sprang for the door.
  14. The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.
  15. Our high and rising house prices rest perilously on short-term interest rates.
  16. Twice I ran perilously close to the edge, my eyes dazzled and eyelids drooping.
  17. None of it registered, because she was fighting tears that were perilously near.
  18. Last season's away form led to flirting with relegation and we went perilously close.
  19. She came perilously close to getting herself killed in her attempt to break the world record.
  20. If beauty is the chink in our perilously thin female armor, motherhood is our Achilles' heel.
  21. Pooley was nearing the end of the bar counter by now and the Swan's doorway was perilously close.
  22. In winter the few cars that make it up the mountains skid along the roads, perilously close to ravines.
  23. In fact, at one point, Berni did come perilously close to being let out to play via a third-floor window.
  24. I eventually began to suspect that their devotion to organizing things comes perilously close to an obsession.
  25. Lawrence, whose preference for more temperate seas brings it perilously close to the environs of civilization.
  26. Their much-vaunted looser approach sees the band edging perilously towards becoming just another pop-rock band.
  27. I suppose women students no longer brush their teeth at sinks positioned perilously close, I always thought, to the urinals.
  28. Choir and audience wave to each other when the singing is over, some of the little boys leaning perilously over the parapets.
  29. He was perilously close to losing control over House Republicans, especially the newly-elected class of 73 right-wing ideologues.

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