precariously
IPA: prɪkˈɛriʌsɫi
adverb
- In a precarious manner; dangerously.
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Examples of "precariously" in Sentences
- Although many trees have been removed from homes and businesses, others remain precariously poised to fall.
- A lone figure swung precariously from the side of a sky-scraping tower, painfully inching his way up a rope.
- Much of it had been stored, quite precariously, in plastic jugs at three separate warehouses in Tripoli suburbs.
- The tide is going out and there are plenty of rocks to turn over, and after only 10 minutes, the youngest, precariously balanced on a boulder near the jetty, calls us over excitedly.
- The lighting setup was four ceiling lights (two warm white incandescent and two daylight energy saving) with one fluorescent desk lamp for right-side illumination and a large halogen standing lamp (titled precariously and propped up by random furniture) at 45 deg which was the illumination source from the left and also the brightest of the lot.
- 47 The image of the child in utero as fruit hanging precariously from a tree extended back to Galen, as Constantinus believed. 48 While Aldobrandino's passage and metaphor attributed a considerable amount of agency to the fruit-fetus (note the active voice), most discussions of fetal growth and parturition portrayed the fetus as entirely passive.
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