perilously's Usage Examples:

For every dive, a child's life is perilously in danger.

The plot concerns two strangers who become perilously entangled after witnessing a deadly accident.

Like the world these apostles knew, the basket of food teeters perilously over the edge.

February 12, 2006 charging through the field from 23rd on the grid, on a perilously wet track, holding off Malaysian Alex Yoong by 1.

the unofficial name of the wreck of a small scow that brought two men perilously close to plunging over the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the Niagara.

had been moved by its depiction of the slight solitary figure clinging perilously to a ledge.

confidence" and he made 41 in quick time, though some of his strokes "flew perilously over the fielders".

Concert Hall, but with rather disastrous economic consequences: We came perilously close to losing the Washington Concert Opera two summers ago.

polymer consolidants to replace the decayed cellulose and lignin in all the perilously fragile artefacts of the Oseberg Viking ship and in August 2017 appointed.

breeches lie on the small bed adjacent to the playbill, which is slipping perilously close to the chamberpot.

rescue group of several Higgins boats was taken under heavy fire and was perilously close to failure.

host once more besieged Tellicherry in 1779 and as British garrison was perilously short on men and food, Pazhassi Rajah sent 1000 men and his entire surplus.

It is surrounded by steep rock and can only be reached by perilously scaling this rock.

Even so, they reached Shemya Air Force Base in the Aleutians perilously low on fuel.

tempestuous short range arrangements of natural elements, a craggy hillock with perilously perched trees.

unobtrusively, flawlessly written that even at its most puzzling it comes as perilously close to poetic beauty as any contemporary sf novel I've ever read.

characters engaged in the recovery of a cargo of pearls from a shipwreck perilously close to the volcano.

As such it may have been an assertion of virtue for a child born "perilously close to the wrong side of marriage" as the historian Peter Ackroyd put.

opus as a labor which redeemed not man but God, a proposal which came perilously close to being heretical in the eyes of Christian orthodoxy.

Apertura 2007 Ischia re-signed with the club at the bottom of the table and perilously close to the automatic relegation places.

Synonyms:

hazardously; dangerously;