Example sentences for: perilous

How can you use “perilous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Eleanor (like all do-gooders motivated by the perilous business of noblesse oblige) might have had her authoritarian leanings, but the point is that FDR wasn't a dictator, and neither was Eleanor, who--whatever she may have mused aloud at the start of the New Deal--never got half the loaf she wanted.

  • What mysteriously disappeared, from one book to the next, is a sense of the perilous.

  • Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting — later to be brought back for further development in Japan.

  • In the meantime, the world will probably be content to support the world of adventure through an occasional perilous walk to Borders.

  • The NYT calls Clinton's grand jury appearance "the most politically and legally perilous moment of his presidency," and says he has been conducting practice sessions in which his lawyers are questioning him and designing answers that allow him to acknowledge a relationship with Lewinsky without going into graphic detail.


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