How To Use Perilously In A Sentence
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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.
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The difference between contemplating preemptive war and jumping at shadows can become perilously thin.
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Kira step out onto the porch to find Midnight, snarling perilously with her unsheathed claws digging into the ground.
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But his stridency and his abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen.
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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
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While the presence of kazoos in the musical score indicates a perilously high level of zaniness, this hootenanny is worth a visit.
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The track snaked perilously upwards.
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And she feels with blood-chilling certainty that her mysterious tormentor is perilously close and that she may vanish next.
Joy Fielding biography
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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
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Water comes up to the second floor, they are out of gasoline, and food supplies are running perilously low.
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Once again, the main building shook perilously.
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I am actually perilously close to missing the deadline for submission of this article.
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The "Pont d'Avignon" is known to every French-speaking child, and with many variants the old "ronde" is sung and danced from the remotest plains of Canada to the valleys of the Swiss Alps. The good folk of Avignon, however, protest that their "rondes" were not danced perilously on the narrow Pont St. Benezet, but under its arches on the green meadows of the
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
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He was playing the part of a stranded climber, injured in a fall and dangling perilously off the rock face.
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With 508 stores in the U.S. and 114 in Canada, the company is perilously close to saturating the market.
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Published in 1967, L' amante Anglaise chronicles the tortuous windings and turnings of a mind perilously close to the edge of reason.
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Mick edges perilously close to the edge, the rod bends some more and a swallow-tailed, almost luminous fish, flashes in the sunrise.
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He had thought that the two of them might simply enter the termitary, mingle -- perilously, but with at least a margin of safety -- with the blind race it housed, and walk out again whenever they pleased.
The Raid on the Termites
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But right now, it's still stupid, having converted barely a percentage point of the mass of the solar system -- it's a mere Magellanic Cloud civilization, infantile and unsubtle and still perilously close to its carbon-chemistry roots.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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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.
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Some of the more sensitive patients responded by having the acid levels in their blood go perilously low (and the alkali levels increase), called alkalosis.
Milk-Alkali Syndrome
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They were a great group, but the workflow proved perilously slow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though his teeth each time clipped together perilously close to the man's leg, each time he fell back to earth he had to gather himself together and run at his own top speed in order to overtake the terror-stricken man on the crazy-galloping horse.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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There are some perilously funny exchanges about sleeping with other people.
Times, Sunday Times
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We battened down the engine-room hatch, and the sea rose to it and over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companion-way and skylight.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING
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However last month I got perilously close to the maximum free limit, with 97KB of text and waffle on this site in January.
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Densely plotted and vividly acted, the film's abundance of ideas and intrigue wind up stretched perilously thin.
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If beauty is the chink in our perilously thin female armor, motherhood is our Achilles' heel.
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I used to notice, even as a boy, how it seemed to inspire the shantyman to sentimental flights of _Heimweh_ that at times came perilously near poetry.
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
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Eddie fell backwards, stumbling over the edge of the trail, but caught on with one hand, perilously hanging over the precipice.
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In passages such as these, his most distinctive, Thackeray comes perilously near abnegating his responsibility as a human being, let alone as a moralist or satirist.
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His stomach did flip-flops as the starter zinged and grumbled for a perilously long time before the tired six cylinder engine finally fired, seeming to suck the last few ergs of power from the aged battery.
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Behind them the long baggage train jolted slowly onwards, now floundering axle deep through mud, now rocking perilously over stumps or stones.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
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Adapted as well as destined by Bruce Robinson, who gave us Withnail as well as I, this take of unruly as well as perilously parched reporters will be near-unavoidable this spring, if usually given we reporters adore drive-in theatre about journalists.
Archive 2009-11-01
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But on Tuesday that site seemed perilously close, and most joined the mass of dazed refugees streaming north away from the trade center.
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‘Fed up with the cost of caring for the trees, with their errant fronds that plunge perilously each winter, and with the fact that they provide little shade,’ Los Angeles has declared war on its iconic, though invasive, palm trees.
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With the chimney stack sited perilously close to an old K Shoes warehouse which needs to be preserved and an electricity substation providing power to homes in the area, softly-softly is the watchword.
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Lawrence, whose preference for more temperate seas brings it perilously close to the environs of civilization.
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He meant to set the child right; he meant to see _only_ the _child_ in her until White returned; he would ignore the perilously sweet woman-appeal to his senses until such time as he could, with safety, let them once more hold part in their relations with each other.
The Man Thou Gavest
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Indeed, ours is a time when mass communication is perilously, frictionlessly easy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I only used it for a few hundred yards, perilously close to a stretch of canal.
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Pooley was nearing the end of the bar counter by now and the Swan's doorway was perilously close.
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Of course, no one would actually argue with such crudity, but there is a kind of discourse that can come perilously close to adopting that caricature attitude.
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The little steer lowed to its Ma, its feet again getting perilously close to the edge.
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It would also be reassuring for an industry that might look perilously threadbare without him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Karpov, the champion, came perilously close to losing.
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I was worried that the wind and water would take me in a south-westerly direction and I would therefore have to pass perilously close to 50 miles of coastline.
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Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. source: Variety
HBO Greenlights Fantasy Television Pilot for George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones | /Film
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There are more trusters than doubters, but the gap is perilously close for such a high-risk war plan.
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They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.
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There are some perilously funny exchanges about sleeping with other people.
Times, Sunday Times
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The house lager was, again, delicious, just a bit on the malty side, and perilously drinkable.
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I was worried that the wind and water would take me in a south-westerly direction and I would therefore have to pass perilously close to 50 miles of coastline.
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On a suburban street where drifts of red and gold leaves line the green lawns, a car is lurching perilously - nearly missing a boy on a bike, sideswiping another car.
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With Aintree announcing record attendances once again for its Grand National meeting, it seems hard to imagine that the famous steeplechase was perilously close to being axed as recently as the 1970s.
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There is perilously little room for manoeuvre in the group but the stage is set.
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It hovers perilously close to cheesy at times (think animal prints and acres of marble), but it positively reeks of a bygone era.
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We had come perilously close to an unwanted record.
The Sun
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Not recognising the deeper motives of those commitments, pinning it all on wonder, is dangerous because it disinclines one to recognise those mechanisms at play in secular - isms like totalitarian ideologies or — most perilously of all, to my mind — scientistic rationalism.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
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California, the world's sixth largest economy and home to booming Silicon Valley, had come perilously close to brown-outs on Thursday.
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A puff of smoke from behind a distant rock, the boom of a jezail, and Desmond fell beside the Boy, stunned by a well-aimed shot on the edge of the cheek-bone, the slug glancing off perilously close to the right eye.
Captain Desmond, V.C.
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A wolf spider treads perilously on the rim of a South American pitcher plant, perhaps looking to prey on insects drawn to the plant's strong nectar scent.
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Bohr may be thought to have got perilously close to this when he suggested that complementarity could shed light on the age-old question of determinism and free will in relation to human nature.
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As they scuffled, a foot struck the lantern, pushing it perilously close to the edge.
End of Time
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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.
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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_
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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.
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For she saw in his eyes love, which no woman can mistake, and a thousand tons of regret and remorse, which aroused pity, which is perilously near to love requited.
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A wolf spider treads perilously on the rim of a South American pitcher plant, perhaps looking to prey on insects drawn to the plant's strong nectar scent.
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Instead of rights being secure within the very fabric of society, they were perilously superficial.
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Behind him all was dark, the faint outline of trees on the horizon swaying perilously below a threatening mass of cloud.
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According to Wratten's article, the Chinook was ‘some 15 seconds from the fogbound lighthouse and perilously close to steeply rising ground that was also shrouded in cloud’.
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There is perilously little room for manoeuvre in the group but the stage is set.
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In Indonesia, people have been forced to loot stores as food and water supplies run perilously low.
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The balconies above were perilously crammed with locals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eddie fell backwards, stumbling over the edge of the trail, but caught on with one hand, perilously hanging over the precipice.
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We walked across the bridge, admiring its construction, the passing cars and the East River perilously close.
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But ten days ago both sides were quite content with the result, both realising that they had come perilously close to losing.
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We came perilously close to a situation in which newspapers would have stopped carrying racecards.
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We also believe the UK – bilaterally and as part of the EU – has an important role to demonstrate to Israel that the threshold of acceptable behaviour has been perilously transgressed.
UK: Muslim extremists target Jews
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The country will thus be perilously set adrift, possibly towards the war.
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The driver gave a single safety instruction "Hold on tight, you're going to get wet", then hurtled down a canyon at high speed, leaning the boat perilously—unbelievably, and exhilaratingly—close to the cliff walls.
High-Flying Adventure
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By the end of 1914, the coal-based production of toluol was inadequate, and Britain was perilously close to running out of explosives.
The Prize
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He overcame the initial seam movement, two perilously close lbw appeals and a few edgy moments before settling down into a dogged mode.
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Every now and then there was a gust and all the lamps guttered perilously.
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Davies arrived on stage at the poky Basement Bar like Gulliver, forcing a crouch so his huge arms could reach up to the perilously low ceiling.
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Who is there to replace that perilously piquant _diseur_ Harry Fragson?
Nights in London
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My initial reaction to this was a sense that here aesthetic beauty came perilously close to swamping the work, as if it were too rich for its own good.
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We battened down the engine room hatch, and the sea rose to it and over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companionway and skylight.
The Joy Of Small-Boat Sailing
