perilously
Example Sentences
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The two countries teetered perilously close to war earlier this year after militants in April killed 26 people, mostly Indian tourists, in India-administered Kashmir.
When it gets a big snow, as it did earlier this month, the trail becomes buried and the whole slope becomes perilously steep.
From Los Angeles Times
Batting was perilously difficult when he came in.
From BBC
Aaron Judge understood that as he dug into the batter’s box in the fourth inning on Tuesday night, with the fate of the 2025 New York Yankees hanging perilously in the balance.
In recent years, the seven states have adopted a series of incremental water-saving plans to try to prevent the reservoirs from reaching perilously low levels.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
