precariously

How To Use precariously In A Sentence

• He balanced precariously on the narrow window - ledge.
• The economy is precariously close to recession.
• China's economy is precariously balanced on a mountain of debt. Times, Sunday Times
• The carriage teetered precariously as he moved to take a seat opposite her and they stared at each other in a calming silence as she drank, but once she finished, the cup fell from her loose fingers and clattered loudly on the floor.
• A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
• Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall. Harsh winter predictions
• The first carries the dual carriageway A4041 with a street light balanced precariously above the centre of the canal.
• They sit precariously on top of one another on a square of unpainted plywood around which are scattered little metal balls of varying sizes.
• As it sways precariously beneath the five-tonner, a small priesthood of caretakers will guide it to a washbasin and gently remove the ravages of worship and travel. Roy and His Rock
• 47 The image of the child in utero as fruit hanging precariously from a tree extended back to Galen, as Constantinus believed. 48 While Aldobrandino's passage and metaphor attributed a considerable amount of agency to the fruit-fetus (note the active voice), most discussions of fetal growth and parturition portrayed the fetus as entirely passive. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries