precariously

IPA: prɪkˈɛriʌsɫi

Examples of "precariously" in Sentences

The bill contains hortatory language but is precariously weak in the details.
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.