Example sentences for: perilously

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

  • She and Costner are meant to be elemental in their attractiveness, but they also demonstrate that there's a perilously thin line between the elemental and the simple-minded.

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

  • "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.

  • How exactly Huntington's diagnosis (perilously deep fault lines) leads to his prescription (further deepen the fault lines) is a puzzle to which we'll return.

  • The film's centerpiece is a sequence in which the doctor perilously crashes an ornately choreographed orgy in which the rich and powerful wear cloaks and Venetian masks and ogle long-legged women as they're marshaled and disrobed by attendants.


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