Example sentences for: precarious

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

  • Who said this about what desperate effort to save what precarious venture?

  • His domestic stability more precarious than he ever dreamed, Harford is eaten at by fantasies of his wife and the soldier, and emerges from his apartment into a kind of Walpurgisnacht . The daughter (Richardson) of a dead patient blurts out a wish to leave her fiance for him.

  • Portugal’s very precarious foothold on the Asian coast ended in 1999 with a formal handover to China.

  • But even that reassurance seemed precarious.

  • Depressed mothers have been found to display negative behaviors towards their infants, which have been shown to adversely affect the child during infancy and in later childhood [ 2 3 ] . A more minor and transient condition known as postpartum blues has a much higher incidence, affecting 50% to 80% of new mothers [ 4 ] . Its symptoms, which include weeping, sadness, irritability, anxiety, and confusion, often resolve by the second week of delivery [ 5 ] , but can still have a negative impact on postpartum mothers in the precarious days following birth.


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