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.
But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
When the trabecular meshwork is blocked at the junction of the cornea and iris, the resulting rise in intraocular pressure can reach dangerously high levels and damage the optic nerve.
Still, if you want your Crisis analysis to have plenty of bite and a dash of bile, relish Living Dangerously.
Currently, the Italian-built Panthers are being finished off by BAE Systems, with the additional of a machine gun, radios and other accessories, when they will be delivered to the Army, effectively providing "battlefield limousines" for Ruperts – as officers are dismissively called – while troops are forced to patrol in dangerously vulnerable "Snatch" Land Rovers. Feeding the European fantasy
The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
Every foreign journalist, every adversary, and every ally will be reading the tea leaves to make their own assessment how badly Obama was damaged by his party's loss of political and popular support, and either take it in stride, or dangerously miscalculate. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover
It's a cameraman's film and mostly about riding dangerously through mulga, about rounding up scrub bulls, about branding and marking with the mass of Mt Leichhardt rising up in blue splendour beyond.
Most dangerously, the procedure meant there was a very high chance the cancer would reoccur. The Sun
I don't think a sane person would drive as dangerously as he did.
You are not only fratricidal, but matricidal, ecocidal and suicidal, dangerously in denial, certifiable, a maniacal, omnicidal menace not only to yourself and other animals, but all of the life on the planet. You Are What You Eat
The men and women who take amazing risks by jumping great distances on motorcycles and in cars, walk thin tightropes high above the ground, and get dangerously close to animals have long been a source of inspiration and shock.
Bolts, nails and other metal scrap are dangerously strewn about on the bridges posing threat not only to the pedestrians but to the vehicles as well.
Caravan owners have been warned that a recent police survey of vehicles revealed many were dangerously overloaded and unfit for the road.
But as far as his reputation goes, the Trainspotting account is dangerously overdrawn. Times, Sunday Times
He sees the United Nations not simply as bloated, but as encroaching dangerously and purposefully on the sovereignty of member nations.
Tutu also criticized what he called the dangerously flawed intelligence used by the U.S. and Britain to justify military action in Iraq. CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2004
It's not as if false accusals are occurring at dangerously epidemic proportions.
But today the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious.
I chanced a second look and was rewarded with even more shots pelting my position dangerously close to my face.
The soldiers entered the dangerously unstable building to search for victims trapped under the rubble.
Common fish species in the area include Atlantic tomcod, mummichog, redfish, herring, silver hake, Greenland halibut, and the dangerously overfished northern cod.
It was Madison, they note, who nudged Jefferson out of retirement after his wife's death in 1782, initiated the criticisms of Hamilton that Jefferson continued in the early 1790s, was the "driving force" behind Jefferson's candidacy for the presidency in 1796, and helped reverse Jefferson's dangerously disunionist impulses three years later, after the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions had failed to rally the states against the Alien and Sedition Acts. Partners in revolution
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
He snorted, lowered his head dangerously, made a feint charge at it; thundered to ano ther halt. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
To the foreigners, however, Chinese behaviour in this respect seemed inconsistent and dangerously unpredictable.
Worse, you may risk such dangerous conditions as heatstroke (dangerously high body temperature) and heart failure.
As carbon levels continue to rise at a rate of around three ppm, such occurrences could become dangerously commonplace. Smithsonian
With their poor eyesight and keen sense of smell, they can get dangerously close.
In Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver, Robert DeNiro played Bickle as an older and more confrontational Caulfield, with a dangerously higher level of adolescent frustration.
The government says major rivers are dangerously polluted.
And, those conditions can only be described as subhuman - dangerously filthy, and without the most rudimentary sanitary facilities or basic medical care. William Fisher: Immigration: Emma Lazarus Redux
It didn't have a name, so we christened it the Dangerously Drinkable.
Poultry thawed at room temperature may contain dangerously high levels of bacteria. Holiday Hazards
On the other, Dave is coming dangerously close to overstepping the line of acceptable behavior!
Thanks to the jammed system, commuters frequently stand on the footboard with the doors left dangerously open.
Some public watchdogs say the council is dangerously close to a violation of the Open Meeting Law.
I stared at his hand, and after a beat of silence, grasped it firmly, my eyes twinkling dangerously.
We had a brief reprieve earlier this week from the oppressive heat of the Washington summer, but the last couple days have been dangerously hot.
Two separate surveys found that many prepacked sandwiches were being stored at dangerously high temperatures, causing the spread of harmful bacteria.
The coach rocked dangerously.
Fiona's mother kept a kindly eye on her daughter while at the same time flirting dangerously with the landlord.
Our intellectual fate is no longer subject to the moods of speculators, in whose thought genius comes dangerously close to mania.
Shortsighted tyrants, spineless power-mongers and heartless thugs vie egomaniacally, dangerously, for power.
Their food and water supplies were dangerously low and the elf rationed it harshly.
Her chemise was much lower cut than her usual as she reached for a blood red dress with the dangerously scooped neckline.
In any event, he's not McCain, a dangerously reactionary ding-a-ling I do not want to see elected. No Apologies From Obama For Wes Clark's Comments
Along the way she has acquired a reputation for becoming intensely, even dangerously, involved in her parts.
You have a chance to wander in and try pies from Dangerously Delicious, eat lobster rolls on a temporary sidewalk patio outside Liberty Tree or feast on Ethiopian dishes from Ethiopic, for starters. Food, music, art and Oktoberfest at the H Street Festival
But the street culture of respect dangerously chimes with that of the politicians: both are couched in terms of threat, control and fear.
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't want her to be a victim, but I wanted her to be someone who'd at least grown smarter from her year of living dangerously, someone who didn't scoff at the White House "meanies" who had tried to avert the mess, someone who was at least conscious about more than herself and her inner circle. Ms. Magazine Online
We must waken, Muske-Dukes admonishes, to our need to empathize, to overcome our great human tendency to forget, to distance, to protect ourselves from the conditions of others, to things happening elsewhere, something that is perhaps most dangerously possible in language. Carol Muske-Dukes: "To a Soldier" Poem
He was swaying dangerously, teetering near the edge of the house.
Temperatures dropped dangerously low, even for a Russian climate.
The act made it illegal to own breeds such as the pit bull terrier, and targeted owners of any dog dangerously out of control. Times, Sunday Times
We were neither of us womanish, and despite his proclivity to wear clothes dangerously close to the dandy set he was a hard sportsman.
Walking in the rain because the escalators down to the dangerously overcrowded platforms have been roped off for safety.
The prime minister's belligerence is dangerously irresponsible.
For a politician or official not to listen to such representation is to neglect their duty dangerously. Times, Sunday Times
Nationally, nearly one in five adults are dangerously overweight.
The dollar pessimists argue that the Asian central banks are already dangerously overexposed both to the dollar and to the U.S. bond market.
Her gaze had followed his to the unknown beauty, and her eyes narrowed dangerously.
All three fleshed out a work that veers dangerously toward cartoonishness at times with solid and thoughtful performances. Do You Like American Music?
For all its intellectual firepower, the unit was dangerously ill equipped and badly prepared. Times, Sunday Times
Common fish species in the area include atlantic tomcod, mummichog, redfish, herring, silver hake, Greenland halibut, and the dangerously overfished northern cod.
They made it to a small boat but it was already dangerously overloaded. Times, Sunday Times
But as far as his reputation goes, the Trainspotting account is dangerously overdrawn. Times, Sunday Times
One of my old snack favourites, they're dangerously moreish. The Sun
The European working time directive has already dangerously reduced their exposure to patients. Times, Sunday Times
The dangerously hot camgirl has managed to turn things up a notch. Kontraband Latest
But the All Saints and Enya, although scientifically sound, can be dangerously strong soporifics to many.
Googlewhacking is a dangerously seductive anticyclonic mixolydian way to waste time at work. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Anthropomorphic nipperkin
She squealed, as he moved dangerously close to the edge of the pool.
Some hitched lifts, clinging dangerously on to the sides of trucks and mini buses as they wound around the hairpin curves over a sickening drop to the valley below.
She was aware that she was on the brink, dangerously close to being rude to this respected Elder.
Inspect preowned carriers for excessive wear, which can dangerously weaken straps and seams. 4 things to do before buying a backpack carrier
We were dangerously close to polar opposite joke territory. Times, Sunday Times
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
Even from across the busy road, I could see that each convulsion jerked his body, stretched out dangerously in the traffic, and caused his head to bash against the hard tarmac, grazing it.
Something I didn't know until researching this post: "The year of living dangerously" is actually a quote from a Sukarno speech. Shadow play
If the weather is deemed dangerously hot or cold then selection that day will be called off. Times, Sunday Times
Only the dangerously contemporary will do, or the prickliest old masters, sung unaccompanied with scorching force and no safety net. Times, Sunday Times
On both sides of the Atlantic, the balance between our lives and our work is dangerously out of kilter.
Interpreting a person's life from journals left behind is a dangerously misguided exercise.
Like any other titanic, lumbering, inefficient machine, Hollywood studios dangerously pollute the atmosphere.
For in the last 30 years he has established that we have become dangerously overdependent on a few high-yielding varieties of plant.
This ‘wildered’ reading-effect, however, is one of the book's unhappier accidents since it suggests that Schad's enthusiasm for topsy-turvy meanings can prove dangerously infectious.
There are times when the world of nature conservation lurches dangerously close to lunacy. Times, Sunday Times
The councillors newly elected this morning, have won themselves a miserable job – meting out the very harshest of those coalitional cuts that are coming so dangerously thick and fast. Local and devolved elections: Yellow alert | Editorial
A case study of cause-and-effect, it's also a yarn of dangerously defective brotherly love.
Once a young, brash president of a growing corporation was being dangerously extravagant. Christianity Today
One moment she would be a healthy weight and the next she would become dangerously thin. The Sun
The brilliant, but cold green eyes clouded over dangerously as she quickly read the material.
At one point it narrowed dangerously as it bordered the edge of a steep cliff.
In the original, the title heroine is a sweet-natured, country lass with a dotingly protective mother, a passion for dance and a dangerously susceptible heart. Thestar.com - Home Page
The financial impost of war would blow out a US budget deficit already escalating rapidly and dangerously.
However, his eyes had darkened dangerously and she could not tell with what emotion.
Nearly 250,000 children in the UK are dangerously allergic to nuts.
He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
It happened because the editors and reporters at the Los Angeles Times take it for granted that people who live in weird states like Wyoming are dangerously ignorant yahoos who need to be taken in hand by the federal bureaucracy.
My body weight was suspended dangerously against it. Times, Sunday Times
I arched my back into him, and his eyes darkened dangerously.
If you do insist on using solvents, avoid low-flash point solvents like gasoline, xylene, lacquer thinner, etc. which are dangerously flammable.
Most dangerously, anaesthetics and tranquillisers such as ketamine may also be added to ecstasy tablets.
But public service companies like Translink can herd children onto a bus that make them, he said, dangerously overloaded.
Athletics has veered dangerously close to farce. Times, Sunday Times
Frequent cancellations, no matter what the excuse, make a diva seem a dangerously risky investment.
For this reason, people with kidney disease or who take potassium-sparing diuretics shouldn't drink noni juice because it can cause dangerously elevated levels of potassium in the blood.
The British food watchdog is asking fast-food restaurants to add calorie-counts to their menus -- and want to adopt a set of "traffic light" labels that indicate dangerously high levels of salt, fat, sugar (or, presumably, eyeball-gnawing maggots, see post below). Boing Boing
The air was cold, and damp with the promise of rain, as clouds still loomed dangerously overhead.
The album is about a dog with authoritarian tendencies, which alone makes it dangerously cutesy - but even worse, much worse is the singing.
Every day hundreds of streetcars, buses and subway cars are dangerously overcrowded during rush hour, yet do their operators get charged?
The rough footpath passes dangerously close to the edge of some of these gorges, and a slip on the muddy trail could well mean a headlong plunge into the boiling waters below.
Both of them are confined to their bed, and the sub-prioress is dangerously ill. The Letters of St. Teresa
Mr Smith drove into one of the potholes because it was too large to avoid without swerving dangerously.
Six months before he began writing, he became dangerously ill with pneumonia.
Worldwide, indeed, surplus nutrient is at least as dangerously polluting as pure toxin.
But only in the last three years have they gotten dangerously high, fueling algae blooms that strangulate fish, smother the water in a putrid green-and-turquoise foam, clog boat engines, foul the air with rancid odors, and emit toxins that can cause permanent health problems in people. David Kirby: The Price of Cheap Meat: A Lake Dies in Ohio
The European working time directive has already dangerously reduced their exposure to patients. Times, Sunday Times
‘They're doing a good job of it,’ Adam said as Hannah swerved dangerously close to an oncoming car.
She moved to one side to avoid a more volatile slash and returned by stepping dangerously close with a backhanded swipe to the temple.
No other two great thinkers (not me and my mucker, the other two) have supplied the world with such an open invitation to knowing so dangerously little.
The products he allegedly doctored triggered hypoglycaemia, in which blood sugar falls dangerously low. The Sun
She fitted twice more on the way up, the second time slipping dangerously out of the chair at the top of some steps.
But the country's economy, which expanded rapidly in the mid-1990s, has slowed dangerously in recent years.
The first act comes dangerously close to becoming another routine police movie.
‘Shut up,’ he said in a tone coming dangerously close to a whine.
The thing is, you have to read the whole platform to see how dangerously unhinged these people really are.
This helicopter was flying dangerously low over the tree tops, swaying and swinging, turning around and swooping over again.
He lunged for her, grabbing her arm as she dangled dangerously a few hundred feet off the ground.
Trouble is, it's a dangerously ambiguous thing to say and Evangelicals who want to be ‘open and affirming’ are fuddled by the inability to distinguish the theology from the therapy.
But she dangerously dismisses racism as a factor in drawing white male voters to Hillary Clinton's campaign in her New York Times op-ed essay this week Instead she endorses Clinton's archetype as a "brawler" who gets "down with the boys". as a model for women candidates in the future. Tom Hayden: Not The Time To Celebrate Clinton As Brawler
The whole film strays dangerously close to anodyne children's television fare at this stage.
John BaxterBerkhamsted, Hertfordshire• Nick Clegg and his Lib Dem ministerial colleagues must be dangerously naive if they think that a quick volte-face, with the imprimatur of Clegg's "personal" authority, on the key ingredients of the health bill, is going to wash with their outraged foot soldiers. Letters: Thoughts and reflections on the NHS
This was Australia at their obdurate best, probing for every run and every sign of weakness, inching towards respectability and a dangerously competitive total on a pitch of uneven bounce.
In the United States alone, several hundred thousand tons of acetylene are produced every year, but its volatility renders it difficult to transport: It becomes dangerously explosive at about 30 psi (207 kilopascal), only about twice normal atmospheric pressure. Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
The great civilisations of Central America - Toltecs, Aztecs and Mayas - were dangerously short of protein, with only the occasional big guinea pig for Sunday lunch.
Hospitals are already struggling to find enough qualified nurses, with tens of thousands of vacancies and many wards dangerously understaffed. Times, Sunday Times
Concrete awnings from parts of the roof dangled dangerously, occasionally crashing to the ground.
A dangerously weak link was accidentally discovered on the moorings of one yacht just the day before the gales struck.
Although veering dangerously towards exaggeration, one has to admit: the man may have had a point.
Broodingly, she twirled the stem of the wine glass between her fingers as the crimson wine twirled around dangerously close to rim of the glass.
For a politician or official not to listen to such representation is to neglect their duty dangerously. Times, Sunday Times
Airports and schools are often forced to close because of poor visibility and dangerously polluted air. Times, Sunday Times
A new business was dangerously close to being snuffed out for ever.
By ignoring legitimate problems like these, U.S. trade policy is falling dangerously out of step with economic reality.
Half an hour late, the train staggers out of the station, dangerously overcrowded, and totally underpowered.
Every bump my horse pranced over made my stomach clench dangerously.
So, Mr millionaire Broon's a bodger - and so mean and hopelessly impractical that he gives children dangerously faulty electrical toys to play with. Gordon Gives Himself a Shock
TKtk Pitcher Chris Young of the New York Mets On the radar gun, it appears dangerously hittable, the kind of mid-80s fastball that lands a pitcher in some far-off, minor-league outpost. The Best Optical Illusion in Baseball
Both men careen dangerously and comically toward midlife crises.
Dude, if that's what you call recreation, you're either dangerously bored or seriously fucked up. Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
The set is a jungle gym, representative of all that is good on the recess playground; yet it is built in a shoddy fashion, with screws protruding dangerously and with two-by-fours not lined up properly.
A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core meltdown.
The girls had never known lock picking to be such a dangerously loud task before, as Loki's attempts rattled the tumblers of the lock so much, someone in a surrounding house could hear it from an open door or window.
One Cabinet minister fears that this approach is dangerously short-sighted. Times, Sunday Times
South Korea trade deal will succeed only if it addresses what they called the dangerously lopsided trade in automotive vehicles. U.S. Lawmakers Warn on Korea Trade
Sure, Lov and O'Halloran's lyrics veer dangerously close to sophomoric, overblown, teen poetry, but really, what lyrics don't?
As a sump for adoration that might otherwise be misdirected at political leaders and go dangerously to their heads.
Fatigue had made him slothful, and now he'd let his enemies get dangerously close.
Gentle brush strokes on a snare drum and soft, lilting vocals are all well and good, but pure pleasantness is apt to fall into the category of being dangerously languorous.
Motorists who drive dangerously close to cyclists as they overtake are to be targeted by undercover police on bicycles. Times, Sunday Times
Spokesman for Cumbria Constabulary Mike Head warned that lake waters could be dangerously deceptive.
The most immediate problem is the spate of reckless and dangerously fast driving that has been taking place on a nightly basis.
That fiction would be laughable were it not so dangerously resonant of totalitarian regimes against which this country once stood firm.
I find myself staring at my father's back as he bends over and peers lengthily into the dangerously overstuffed interior of the fridge.
I have complained to the council time and time again about the street, which has a cobbled surface and gets dangerously slippy when it's wet.
With Rovers currently hovering dangerously near the relegation zone, it's vital the players are not distracted from the task of trying to secure a priceless away win.
Bundles of goods containing inflammable materials and electricity wires dangerously hanging overhead cause recurrent fire.
The fatberg had been clogging London's sewers and was dangerously close to flooding the streets with raw waste.
He was dangerously thin, and was said to be suffering from serious medical problems.
She should have known that the vessel was grossly and dangerously overloaded.
Initial reports suggested the ferry, which had recently returned to sea after repairs, was dangerously overcrowded.
They ` re mentally ill, or they ` re what we call dangerously anti-social. CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2006
Heavy pollution makes people drive more dangerously, according to the first study to link dirty air with road accidents. Times, Sunday Times
Overburdened support personnel rushed from one temporary work assignment to another, their ranks dangerously depleted by a recent company-wide restructuring.
Mr. Hornby has always come dangerously close to too cute, but he's generally sharp enough to rescue the whole thing from gooiness. Four Jumpers Who Flop: Hornby's Latest Falls Flat
The voice-over commentary covers his thoughts, a technique that can be dangerously indulgent.
I had that year been dangerously ill of a fever in Holland; and when I was recovered of it, the febrific humor fell into my legs, and swelled them to that degree, and chiefly in the evening, that it was as painful to me as it was shocking to others. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
At very low tides they scramble dangerously round the exposed, rusting bones.
Since the view of the famous blowhole is not wheelchair accessible, Jo sat in the van at a spot perched dangerously close to a cliff where the ocean beat against rocks thousands of feet below. The Road To El Dorado
Heaped upon itself it becomes dangerously unstable, at some point reversing a fundamental theory of political relativity and becoming the one thing it should never be - the story itself.
And conversely, to drive unpredictably is to drive dangerously.
Not because I think that spanking and spankers are in all circumstances evil and terrible – my own parents were spankers – but because I think that although spanking is not always or necessarily abusive, it tilts too obviously and too dangerously in that direction and anything that encourages the practice just might, you know, grease the slope. A Spanking A Day Keeps Failure Away? | Her Bad Mother
GROSS: That's Joan Baez on the Smothers Brothers 'show in March of 1969, and my guest is our TV critic, David Bianculli, who's written a new book about the Smothers Brothers, called "Dangerously Funny. 'The Uncensored Story' Of The Smothers Brothers
This naturally brings them into conflict with those of us who think their institutions are generally corrupt and are being used in dangerously stupid ways by politicians who are even more corrupt. Matthew Yglesias » Supporting the Troops
Board games have been pulled out of storage, and I have turned a blind eye to yo-yos tossed up and down dangerously close to vases and other breakables.
They instantly began their workouts again as the sun sank dangerously low on the horizon.
One moment she would be a healthy weight and the next she would become dangerously thin. The Sun

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