Sentence example with the word 'precarious'

precarious

ambiguous, delicate, dubious, indecisive, on thin ice, questionable, shifty, ticklish, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady

Definition adj. affording no ease or reassurance

Last update: July 1, 2016


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Running around with a knife is very precarious.   [adjective]

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He was unable to get down from his precarious position on the rock.   [adjective]

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At the moorland edge, the rare black grouse maintains a precarious foothold.   [adjective]

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The three years of precarious prosperity were supposed to have a mysterious correspondence with the number of his visits to the spectral fire upon the bill.   [adjective]

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"Lead adventures of all kinds are very precarious, Mr."   [adjective]

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"And you are now old and miserable, asking from precarious charity the food which in your youth you tore from the hand of the poor peasant."   [adjective]

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To success in this political department he naturally looked for raising himself by some bold stroke above his present hazardous and precarious trade of rapine.   [adjective]

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Here my life is restless, uncertain, precarious, and, what is worse, indolent, illiterate, and vagrant.   [adjective]

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But this precarious condition is an injustice, for it implies an inequality in the bargain.   [adjective]

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