perilously

They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.

by his own confession, he had strayed perilously close to alcoholism.

The hikers were perilously close to the edge of the cliff.

She balanced perilously on the edge of the chair.

The tightrope walker walked perilously across the thin rope.

The car skidded perilously on the icy road.

The ship navigated perilously through the stormy waters.

He drove perilously fast through the narrow streets.

The acrobat performed perilously high above the ground.

The situation became perilously tense as negotiations broke down.

The mountain climbers were perilously close to running out of oxygen.

The economy teeters perilously on the brink of recession.

Your surname is perilously close to Yodel.

But in Ukraine, the fighting edged perilously closer to a tipping point.

" You've upset me" . She stifled something that was perilously near hysterics.

After a two-year depression, the U.S. Treasury has become perilously close to bankruptcy.

Boss finds this model misleading, perilously bound up in the way Americans conceptualize themselves.

Violent blood was in them all, perilously close to the surface, lurking just beneath the kindly courteous exteriors.

A BBC investigation in Ghana found hospitals perilously short of trained staff as nurses leave for better-paying jobs abroad.

But you don't like him yourself, my lady. You never wanted him...-You're sailing perilously close to the wind, O'Brien.

For Mr. Biden, that bleak national outlook has pushed his job approval rating to a perilously low point.

" Have a care, Your Grace, " Ser Addam Marbrand warned the king. " Valyrian steel is perilously sharp" .