Example sentences for: perilously

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

  • The Post and NYT both front an astounding photograph of a Taiwanese apartment building perilously perched over the street like a giant Tower of Pisa.

  • "This may just have been a piece of clever marketing, but it comes perilously close to using a financial incentive to influence the election," the editorial said.

  • This would be great for the country but tough on "News Quiz," already perilously low on favorite targets.

  • Price-earnings ratios are perilously high in both.

  • Peter Schjeldahl of the Village Voice called Renoir "the worst artist ever to achieve canonical status"; art historian Michael Fried remarked that "Renoir's native gift was perilously slight"; and critic Robert Rosenblum worried about the "sugar content" of his paintings.


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