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Example sentences for: precarious

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Portugal’s very precarious foothold on the Asian coast ended in 1999 with a formal handover to China.
"It is a very precarious existence if you are living on a low income and you barely have enough for anything else except for food or clothing, and then all of a sudden there is an additional demand on you based on some legal matter - that throws everything off.
Following it, the road finally climbs into a craggy forest surrounded by mist-shrouded peaks with tall pines clinging to the most precarious ledges.
It must be said—and I believe I shall be borne out on this—that relying on citations appearing in the OED or in works written long ago is a precarious business: the only accurate, safe statement that can be made about such information is that it provides evidence for the existence of a word in a given context at the time of publication of the work: it cannot and must not be construed as the first time the word appeared on the face of the earth, merely as the first written evidence we have of its appearance.
The sense of order here is slight, but it's enough to give the picture a momentary, precarious unity.