perilous

How To Use perilous In A Sentence

• It was a perilous situation. THE GUARDSMEN
• We came perilously close to a situation in which newspapers would have stopped carrying racecards.
• We are appalled at the perilous state of the farming and fishing industries.
• Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
• But when the distances are longer and the borders tougher, the journeys become much more perilous.
• Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
• Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the tinkers and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without.
• But failure to create a viable land settlement was politically perilous.
• Removing from office a volunteer of long standing can be a perilous action. Christianity Today
• Although fairly common now, the great egret came perilously close to extinction at the hands of the hat trade at the beginning of the twentieth century; egret plumes were deemed a fashion accessory.