Example sentences for: perilously

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

  • Buchanan finds the most truth in the comparison: Dowd's suggestion is "perilously close to the truth."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Julie Burchill wrote recently in the Guardian , "The idea that one party has to overcome the 'natural' resistance of the other party to sexual intercourse by a combination of gifts and being economical with the truth takes us perilously near to date-rape territory."


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