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How to use precariously in a sentence

10 example sentences · adverb

Precariously means in a precarious manner; dangerously. Example: “The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.”

Examples of precariously by meaning

adverbIn a precarious manner; dangerously.

  • A Greater Anglia Class 755 stands precariously close to where ballast has been washed away at Haddiscoe on January 30.2022 February 9, “Network News”, in RAIL, page 27, photo caption

More sentences with precariously

  • The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.From the entry poise
  • The mysterious woman meandered up the street, shailing and leaning precariously at times.From the entry shail
  • But every good earnings report further entrenches Nvidia as a precariously placed, load-bearing piece of the global economy.2025 October 30, Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How the AI Crash Happens”, in The Atlantic. From the entry load-bearing
  • The vicious needles pincushioned my hands and the tree wobbled precariously as I scrabbled for a pain-free hold.2013, Pippa Wright, The Foster Husband, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, pages 87–88. From the entry pincushion
  • Can there be a more dubious moment in the entire poem than this precariously enjambed impersonation of prophetic forthspeaking?2008, Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's heroic muse, 1790-1910. From the entry forthspeaking
  • The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.1995, Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996, page 216. From the entry prang
  • In the background were impossible castles and castlettes, precariously perched on isolated pinnacles of rock, which broke out here and there with unlikely trees.1922, Charles Matlack Price, Poster design. From the entry castlette
  • The creoles' legitimacy as a neofeudal elite thus hinged rather precariously, not on a natural right of birth, but exclusively on a spotless record in imperial service.2012, Ralph Bauer, José Antonio Mazzotti, “Introduction”, in Ralph Bauer, José Antonio Mazzotti, editors, Creole Subjects in the Colonial…. From the entry neofeudal
  • The country as I saw it from the train was magnificently green, and after Shiukwan it became seriously mountainous, so that the brave new railway wound precariously up the river-banks.1946, Richard P. Dobson, “Kwangtung”, in China Cycle, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46-47. From the entry magnificently

Meaning of precariously

  1. adverb In a precarious manner; dangerously.

Full definition of precariously

Questions about precariously in a sentence

How do you use precariously in a sentence?
Precariously is used as an adverb. For example: “The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.”
What is a short sentence with precariously?
“The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.”
What does precariously mean?
Precariously means in a precarious manner; dangerously.

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