Definition of perilously in English:
perilously
adverb ˈpɛrɪləsliˈpɛrələsli
In a way that is full of danger or risk.
houses perched perilously on craggy outposts
as submodifier many came perilously close to starvation
Example sentencesExamples
- Small, three-dimensional figures are poised perilously at the end of long, frail wires.
- Issue 16 has Promethea perilously sink to the bottom of a literal ocean of emotion.
- His love affair with the 'perilously bewitching' actress began in 1912.
- The first movement begins sotto voce, with the cello's fragile harmonics, perilously high on the A string.
- Vienna's aesthetic sense seems in perilously low supply these days.
- On some occasions, he came perilously close to this extremity, shunning his female groupies in truly humiliating ways.
- A full-scale paper bookcase leaned perilously away from the gallery's far wall, mirrored on panels of Plexiglas that rested on the floor.
- For a long second she hovers, perilously.
- He is perilously adrift from the way others are starting to perceive him.
- Hip hop is perilously low on fresh subject matter.
Definition of perilously in US English:
perilously
adverbˈperələslēˈpɛrələsli
In a way that is full of danger or risk.
houses perched perilously on craggy outposts
as submodifier many came perilously close to starvation
Example sentencesExamples
- His love affair with the 'perilously bewitching' actress began in 1912.
- Hip hop is perilously low on fresh subject matter.
- For a long second she hovers, perilously.
- Small, three-dimensional figures are poised perilously at the end of long, frail wires.
- Vienna's aesthetic sense seems in perilously low supply these days.
- Issue 16 has Promethea perilously sink to the bottom of a literal ocean of emotion.
- On some occasions, he came perilously close to this extremity, shunning his female groupies in truly humiliating ways.
- A full-scale paper bookcase leaned perilously away from the gallery's far wall, mirrored on panels of Plexiglas that rested on the floor.
- He is perilously adrift from the way others are starting to perceive him.
- The first movement begins sotto voce, with the cello's fragile harmonics, perilously high on the A string.