perilously

How To Use perilously In A Sentence

• After luring a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with chum diver Andre Hartman ends up perilously close to the premier predator off the coast of Gansbaai South Africa.
• The difference between contemplating preemptive war and jumping at shadows can become perilously thin.
• Kira step out onto the porch to find Midnight, snarling perilously with her unsheathed claws digging into the ground.
• But his stridency and his abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen.
• For, brief though that period of blindness had been, 'twas amply sufficient to carry the aeromotor perilously near yonder storm-centre, and though Professor Featherwit gripped hard his tiller, trying all he knew to turn the air-ship for a safer quarter, - 'twas all in vain! The Lost City
• While the presence of kazoos in the musical score indicates a perilously high level of zaniness, this hootenanny is worth a visit.
• The track snaked perilously upwards.
• And she feels with blood-chilling certainty that her mysterious tormentor is perilously close and that she may vanish next. Joy Fielding biography
• Several of the schools in the for-profit sector derive more than 85 percent of their revenues from federal student aid, putting them perilously close to the 90-percent threshold and placing schools at risk of losing access to the wellspring of federal aid. For-Profit Colleges Selling Students On High-Risk Loans, Consumer Group Says
• Water comes up to the second floor, they are out of gasoline, and food supplies are running perilously low.