[
US
/ˈdeɪndʒɝəsɫi/
]
[ UK /dˈeɪndʒəɹəsli/ ]
[ UK /dˈeɪndʒəɹəsli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a dangerous manner
he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge
How To Use dangerously In A Sentence
- The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
- As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously.
- He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
- Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.
- They have been drained of meaning by their lazy overuse, dangerously sharp and potent concepts reduced to kitsch cliché.
- I thought it dangerously late in the season for controlled heather burning, a real threat to ground nesting birds like red grouse and dunlin. Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
- Kata training is great for defense, raising your level of fitness, toning your body muscles and releasing those dangerously high levels of stress.
- I've got a peacock-green number, a black thing with loads of diamanté, and a shiny silver one with a dangerously low neckline.
- The “ghost” plotline is coming dangerously close to shark-jumping territory, in my opinion. 20 minutes too long? : Bev Vincent
- But that is moving dangerously close to what we might call the Gilligan defence: some of the details were wrong, m'lud, but it was, in essence, true.