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
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
A pink pillar-box hat was perched precariously on her head, and pinned to its side was a large artificial purple flower.
In the end, due to the meagerness of both our resources and our carpentry skills, we settled on a balance constructed of wood and a precariously balanced wire hanger.
We spotted an old man precariously perched on top of a pile of rubble, searching for something.
The hunter-gatherer lifestyle today survives precariously in remote regions.
The stage resembled an oblong squash court with seating perched precariously on scaffolding above the set.
A few survivors, precariously perched on sill-less windows, survey their double bind looking for perspective and vanishing points, a place to tip themselves over the edge in hopes defatigable winging. Kamikaze Birdsongs
Half the cast dangle above the stage on ropes or perch precariously on a bamboo scaffold that forms the skeleton of the set. Times, Sunday Times
The sea sighs at the feet of the cliffs where fulmars and kittiwakes are sitting hopefully on nests precariously wedged into the narrowest of crevices. Times, Sunday Times
My upper body wavered precariously and my eyes watered as I caught sight of the drop below.
The villagers cook on open fires with precariously balanced pots, which result in many scalds and burns.
At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space. A Monumental Moment
Labour backbenchers precariously hanging on to marginal seats began to stir.
From there a path twists its way through outcropping crags and tiny lochans to the summit, perched precariously on top of its own little crag.
Flying into this Himalayan Shangri-La, I was immediately struck by the world's highest unclimbed mountain, the exquisite temples perched precariously on cliffs, the friendly and handsome people adorned in traditional silk attire, and a healthy dose of wafting incense and chanting mantras. Chip Conley: The Happiest Place on the Planet?
Half the cast dangle above the stage on ropes or perch precariously on a bamboo scaffold that forms the skeleton of the set. Times, Sunday Times
They were always careful not to saw away the branch upon which their own livelihood was precariously, if tenaciously, hanging.
The getaway by bus goes smoothly until an accident sends the vehicle into a skid, leaving it dangling precariously over the edge of a cliff. Times, Sunday Times
Today – as it was generations ago – tuxedoed waiters flit around tables, precariously balancing countless Viennese coffee varieties and trademark yeast dumplings on silver trays. Leopold Hawelka, luminary of Viennese cafe culture, dies aged 100
Meditation for a leap into the unknown At great turning points, life quivers precariously on the tightrope of obedience.
He balanced the glass precariously on the arm of his chair.
One of my grocery bags was still precariously perched on the car bumper.
She teetered precariously before moving once again to position her feet solidly on the ground.
In fact, much of the album was pieced together on a laptop perched precariously on packing boxes. Times, Sunday Times
The guys tapped on their heels, balanced precariously and even attempted a few body flips.
You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
For the next six years I learned to live the way the rest of the world lives, on credit and a precariously balanced checkbook.
I like my chips open or wrapped, with a crisp wedge of battered cod perched precariously on top.
It gives the band an ability to loose the reigns and do something that precariously walks the line between excitement and embarrassment.
They made their way over, wavering precariously, and collapsed at his feet.
She leaned precariously out of the window.
There's also a stonking good sword fight, in which furniture gets overturned, weapons are scooped up on the fly and the combatants find themselves thrusting and parrying while perched precariously up in the rafters.
At that point WPC Norton was perched precariously on a rickety chair in an attempt to inspect the top of the wardrobe. WIDOW'S END
Even if programmatically attractive, this is a precariously fragile hypothesis.
The suits are elegant, the hair high and the décolletages so precariously low that you know there's been a run on double-sided tape.
It's an island where isolated villages cling precariously to crags, wild boar snuffle for food and bees grow drunk on the nectar from the maquis - the fragrant scrub that cloaks the island's ancient bones.
Her suitcase was precariously balanced on the tiny luggage rack above her head.
The tide is going out and there are plenty of rocks to turn over, and after only 10 minutes, the youngest, precariously balanced on a boulder near the jetty, calls us over excitedly. Diary of a separation
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
Ice Cube is precariously balanced between entertainment and polemic.
Outside, before each room, a tin fireplace for cooking precariously bestrided the veranda rail. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
She is clutching at the grass, precariously hanging over the cliff and screaming as crumbling rocks fall to the water below.
When I am walking in a crowded room, especially while carrying a spillable object in my hands balanced above other precariously situated object, and some rude motherchicken decides to bump into me, spill my long-anticipated tasty lunch on the ground, and then continue on his bumbling way, I should be able to sentence that person to eternal damnation. Bluemeany Diary Entry
In Congress, the word sidecar doesn't call up images of a one-wheeled device precariously attached to a motorcycle — but it's a risky vehicle all the same. A Bumpy Ride
With that high center of gravity you're twice as likely as some putz in a Pontiac to tip precariously onto two wheels.
A gripping and ultimately enduring release borne of a timeless song craft and precariously married to a deeply maddening anxious hurt.
The other men had come and hastily put a roof on, but the cabin as a whole reminded Roger of nothing so much as a pile of giant jackstraws, poised precariously on the side of the mountain and obviously only awaiting the next spring flood to slide down the mountain after its builder. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
The suits are elegant, the hair high and the décolletages so precariously low that you know there's been a run on double-sided tape.
Billy pulled his gun out of the holster on his belt and stepped precariously into the farmhouse.
Many cities were said to be turning into ghost towns, with some five to seven million people living precariously on the breadline, scratching out an existence from one day to the next.
The hotel was perched precariously on a steep hillside.
But the separation had come too late for the Audi, which was now balanced precariously with only two wheels still on the ground. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Furthermore, he was precariously balanced and might fall.
The break was a long gulley, and the road climbed precariously and steeply along its edge.
An angel was balancing precariously on top of the Christmas tree.
The lighting setup was four ceiling lights (two warm white incandescent and two daylight energy saving) with one fluorescent desk lamp for right-side illumination and a large halogen standing lamp (titled precariously and propped up by random furniture) at 45 deg which was the illumination source from the left and also the brightest of the lot. Anime Nano!
I am a member of a entire subclass of not-so-young-anymore men, living in large cities, who are precariously close to being worrisome bachelors, problem sons, borderline lost causes.
I resolve to take out the trash in a timely manner rather than continue piling things precariously on top of an already overstuffed trash bin.
The ground rose about the chungke-yard like the walls of an amphitheatre, on every side save the slope toward the "beloved square" and the river, furnishing an ideal position of vantage for spectators were they even more numerous than the hundreds of Cherokees of all ages that had gathered on the steep acclivities to overlook the game -- some ranged on the terrace or turfy ridge around the chungke-yard, formed by the earth thrown out when the depressed area was delved down long ago, others disposed beneath the spreading trees, others still, precariously perched on clifty promontories beetling out from the sharp ascent. The Frontiersmen
In fact, much of the album was pieced together on a laptop perched precariously on packing boxes. Times, Sunday Times
The television was precariously balanced on top of a pile of books.
The professor and his wife find their union precariously balanced between life and death.
The tiny but sturdy craft was tossed precariously by the rip tides created in the close waterway.
After a 1-1 draw in midweek it is precariously balanced. Times, Sunday Times
They propel themselves forward without toppling the wine bottles perched precariously on their hats.
Luckily, it caught a jar full of pencils, already unstable and perched precariously on the edge of the desk.
The country swayed precariously between Christianity and paganism.
Grasping a handful of bulrushes to steady herself, she leaned precariously out to grab it.
You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
Her suitcase was precariously balanced on the tiny luggage rack above her head.
The tree is also good climbing material for the cat, who seems oblivious to the prickly foliage and spends hours at the top precariously lunging at flies and watching the birds who sit just out of reach on the telegraph wires.
The last remaining member of the Hail family rose from her seat, balancing precariously on unstable legs.
A tall dark waiter in a tuxedo waltzed by, an amazingly large tray laden with dishes precariously balanced above his head.
In a culture like theirs, so precariously balanced between nature and culture, such reactionary Calvinist rhetoric seems odd.
Her crown was precariously perched on the curls piled between the twin poufs, and looked as if it might fall off at any minute.
But you cannot really spare the time for that because you may be clinging precariously to a cliff face, attached to ropes and pitons.
Fenella, clutching the narrow ledge, standing precariously on the piled sacks, thought, in horror: Miach's spell.
The getaway by bus goes smoothly until an accident sends the vehicle into a skid, leaving it dangling precariously over the edge of a cliff. Times, Sunday Times
Part of Selby town centre was cordoned off when the gable end of a shop was struck by lightning, leaving a chimney stack poised precariously over a busy shopping street.
The Norse colony expanded to a few thousand people who mostly farmed, despite a precariously short growing season. Times, Sunday Times
She leaned precariously out of the window.
The associations she infers are numerous—and precariously contradictory.
Furthermore, he was precariously balanced and might fall.
She scrambled frantically at the rock with her left, found a fingerhold and dangled precariously over a vertical drop.
David raised his eyebrows, and his skull ring wobbled precariously.
Entire clusters of painted wood strips were raised off the ground by a pair of precariously positioned folding tables.
Often people join the conversations from above, hanging over the rails of the many furbelowed wrought-iron fire escapes precariously fastened to house fronts.
Much of it had been stored, quite precariously, in plastic jugs at three separate warehouses in Tripoli suburbs. Michael Bronner: Civil War (Hold the Mustard...)
On the basis of this analysis, it would seem that the answer lies precariously between the last two possibilities.
On top of this was precariously piled a series of characters and subplots that looked and sounded like an improvised drama workshop from a citizenship class. Times, Sunday Times
As it backs up near one of the houses, a chatter of excitement erupts from the people perched precariously on top of its cargo.
Another puzzling aspect of Connemara life for a midlander was the ease with which a few houses perched precariously on the side of a Connemara hillside could be referred to in conversation as the village.
The ship rocked and the candles wavered precariously, on the edge of shrouding them in darkness.
Many cities were said to be turning into ghost towns, with some five to seven million people living precariously on the breadline, scratching out an existence from one day to the next.
They had to build a scaffold tower after the crash, which left its victims hanging precariously at an angle 25ft off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Tahr perched herself precariously on the window ledge watching the evening activity along the wharves: fishing boats being tied, cargo being unloaded, sails being reefed and mended.
His performance here finds him teetering precariously between majesty and ludicrousness.
In the first of many gripping scenes, a horrendous accident leaves all three hanging precariously by one rope.
You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
Converted into coins, the money he'd borrowed from his wife nearly filled the pickle jar he balanced precariously on his lap.
Sidecar Faces a Bumpy Ride In Congress, the word sidecar doesn't call up images of a one-wheeled device precariously attached to a motorcycle — but it's a risky vehicle all the same. Obama Brings Health-Care Push to Ohio
*** And, when one reads Berlin's qualified praise of Herzen, it's easy to see how he became central to Stoppard's three plays: "Herzen does at least face genuine political problems, such as the incompatibility of unlimited personal liberty with either social equality, or the minimum of social organization and authority; the need to sail precariously between the Scylla of individualist 'atomization' and the Charybdis of collectivist oppression; the sad disparity and conflict between many, equally noble human ideals; the nonexistence of 'objective,' eternal, universal moral and political standards, to justify either coercion or resistance to it; the mirage of distant ends, and the impossibility of doing wholly without them. Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers
Watching Michael Caine struggle with whether or not his life (and the lives of his accomplices) was worth the loss of his booty, as their getaway bus teetered precariously on the edge, was enough to get audiences on the edge of the seat.
The stranded reveller was perched precariously on the third floor at 4.30am. The Sun
Beneath the cries of curlews, low tongues of land balance precariously between sea and marsh.
The sun was glaring and hot, focused down to a tight coin perched precariously above the Manhattan skyline. Miss Misery
The form as a whole thrusts out from the neat pedestal on which it precariously rests.
Forget sighting a humble swallow—these days, the first sign of a British summer must surely be the inaugural glimpse of a bright, feathered fascinator perched precariously atop the mother of the bride.
She balanced precariously with one foot on each.
My upper body wavered precariously and my eyes watered as I caught sight of the drop below.
He lowered the pince-nez which attached itself precariously to the end of his flattened nose.
In common with other members of the swallow family, house martins build elaborate mud nests precariously slung beneath the eaves of a house.
It is a compromise solution which leaves the best-execution pillar swaying precariously.
As they watched in bemusement she reached sand and promptly sank ankle-deep, wobbling precariously, grabbing at air for support, her balance an uncertainty from moment to moment.
Then, balancing precariously on a stepladder, I rethreaded the rods in the fixture and repositioned all the glass frames except one.
Her design provides a steeply raked underlit playing area upon which the actors perch precariously.
The television was precariously balanced on top of a pile of books.
Alvaro was placed precariously on the truck's gunwale, where he angrily insisted that the driver turn the truck around and go back for his hat. The Captain's Hat
Grasping a handful of bulrushes to steady herself, she leaned precariously out to grab it.
Catherine wheels, rockets and penny bungers have been dumped in favour of a pair of fiscally responsible and po-faced nature lovers hanging precariously in the trees flashing their $2 torches.
China's economy is precariously balanced on a mountain of debt. Times, Sunday Times
The eurozone hovers precariously on the edge of crisis and demographic trends present longterm challenges for which there are few convincing answers. Times, Sunday Times
Her suitcase was precariously balanced on the tiny luggage rack above her head.
These works portray a San Francisco of exaggerated hills, where buildings cling precariously to steeply sloping cliffs.
I have to contend with Thai-roasted pheasant with sweet yams and shitake mushrooms, balanced precariously on a writhing pepper and black bean sauce.
The painting depicts two naked figures balancing precariously on a fish-filled wooden boat.
Its economy is precariously dependent upon foreign trade, and foreign trade is an immediate casualty of war.
The hunter-gatherer lifestyle today survives precariously in remote regions.
On entering his cabin, I saw that he had arranged a paraffin lamp somewhat precariously upon the side table.
The smaller stage was covered with equipment—too many guitars to number, a series of keyboards, pedals, and a precariously perched laptop.
being a precariously dominant minority is a difficult position for human nature to cope with
Pull on a pair of gumboots, grab a packed lunch, sunhat, sunscreen, umbrella, thermos of coffee… and head off up the farm track to the little weather beaten stands perched precariously on the river's bank.
With my toes perched precariously on a nub of rock, I frantically search for the next handhold.
And now, like beasts of burden, Alexis, Patra and Aphrodite arrived, precariously laden with salads, watermelon, bottles, a portable fridge. COUP D'ETAT
Despite their doubts these men clung precariously to some idea of God, unwilling to jettison Him altogether.
Christine lunged at Denton again, the Master backhanding her to send her precariously near the edge of the roof, her head spinning from the force of the blow.
If a policeman on horseback represents the immovable object, a cop straddling a bike represents a precariously balanced man on wheels.
A woman at the bar on the tier above us held her drink precariously over mom's head.
His threat to allow judges to reveal previous convictions of an accused to a jury in limited circumstances would rip the blindfold off Lady Justice and unbalance her already precariously tipping scales.
As they came upon the balcony guarded precariously by a short fence of black steel, Tia gazed up at the midnight sky, bedazzled by its sudden beauty.
A thin squeaking betrayed the presence of two baby gold crests, precariously balanced on the branch of a larch.
The horizon was darkening, now; a blue, red, purple, and orange mixing precariously around the tangerine clouds littering the sky.
While climbing a precariously balanced ladder and looking over a fence into the neighbour's garden, the neighbour appeared and subjected me to a tirade of abuse. Times, Sunday Times
He pulled up on his ice tools, their picks precariously dug into soft snow.
They had to build a scaffold tower after the crash, which left its victims hanging precariously at an angle 25ft off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Iceland sits precariously atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a vast undersea mountain range whose subsurface volcanoes account for much of the country's tumultuous terrain.
The hotel was perched precariously on a steep hillside.
He's barely wheeled his scooter out of the side gate before I'm leaning precariously out of the bedroom window scanning the street for speeding cars, rabid dogs and men with pockets full of puppies.
The hotel perched precariously on a steep hillside.
Henderson earned his corn with a blinding save from Terriers dangerman Chris Brandon as City clung precariously to their lead.
It took no more than a second for the door to snap open and a portly man to emerge, balancing two doughnuts precariously in one hand.
All the separate pieces are precariously held together with glue, tape, tacks, and pins.
Ice Cube is precariously balanced between entertainment and polemic.
There was the man who could balance on the most precariously stacked barrels.
He dozed lightly in a rickety wooden chair tilted precariously back on the far stable wall.
She leaned precariously out of the window.
Today he danced precariously on the summit, mashing to a pulp the thick green leaves of a branch of pig's-face under his feet.
'coquettish' in such moments, when in fact she was treading precariously close to frenzied strangulation. Be My Enemy
So far, 2,426 homes have been destroyed in the mudslides, many built precariously in hillside shantytowns.
A videotape perched precariously on the edge of a shelf toppled down. COMPULSION
As in all the best musicals, the potential for calamity hangs precariously throughout the movie.
The hubbub mounts, then, in an ever softening smorzando, peels away like sonar panty hose when an elderly man, a senior vice-president at Merrill Lynch, climbs precariously atop a table and croaks the announcement, in a hoarse old voice, that the Nikkei has opened sharply lower, yet not as low as many had feared, and that it shows signs of stabilizing. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
He was very impressive - and cheap - and even fitted the fan that the electrician had left dangling precariously by a live flex at no extra cost.
In this respect, links can be made to the pioneering work of the Organization of American States Commission in developing and strengthening emergent democracies in a precariously unstable region.
He balanced precariously on the narrow window - ledge.
They hang on precariously on to the vehicle and their job is to ensure that anyone who gets close to the leader does not end up falling on him or her due to the surge of the crowd from behind.

How To Use Precariously In A Sentence

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