Words and phrases began repeating themselves in my head as they will under a strain: so I know at sea a man perilously hanging on to the tiller makes a kind of litany of his instructions.
Although he sedulously avoids introducing the supernatural, he hovers perilously on the threshold.
Cliffs shut him in on every side, and Edward was at a loss what to do, till he discovered, climbing perilously out in the rock above the cave mouth, some slight steps or ledges.
And, for a moment, her fat little body swayed perilously on the brink.
Like too many other collies, she had a mania for rushing at any motor vehicle, and for whizzing along beside it, perilously close to its fast-moving wheels, barking and screaming hysterically and bounding upward at its polished sides.
Arnold Imrie was perilously close to a very human display of temper, but the Reverend Arnold saved him.
Something like tears came into his eyes as he surveyed these friends whom he was deliberately transforming into something perilously like enemies--for no reason save that he must.
The men stood up to look ahead, while the boys in the back end of the wagons craned perilously over the edge of the box to see how long the line was.
The team started up, and the worn old seat swayed from side to side so perilously that Bradley with incredible audacity put his arm around, and grasped the end of the seat on the other side of Ida.
So violently had she heeled over, that the men in the cabin had been thrown on top of one another into the lee bunk, where they squirmed and twisted and were washed about, those underneath being perilously near to drowning.
At the next heave a second bullet went zipping past, perilously near.
A man in another window leaned perilously out to watch the flight of the dog.
At intervals they leaned out perilously to clutch at iron rings that were tendered to them by a long wooden arm.
Over a broken road that set the light cart perilously bumping, speeding along the edges of precipices, with little more than inches to spare, at a pace that might well set the nerves jangling with every jolt.
In the brief time she had spent under his roof she had already learned that, as yet, she had only seen the gentlest side of the man, and that the other side was always perilously near the surface.
But he held them back with a sudden grip that was perilouslynear breaking.
His brain was still perilously active, and not only cut and refined the dialogue, but made most radical modifications of the "business.
As his bank account grew perilously small, Douglass fell into deeps of black despair, wherein all imaginative power left him.
The fear of something which he seemed perilously near saying filled her with unrest, bringing up questions which had thus far been kept in the background of her scheme of life.
Where the columns rest on a soft stratum, their foundations have in many places given way, and whole porticoes and colonnades hang perilously forward in tottering ruin, separated from the living rock behind by deep chasms.
This means of conveyance, however, was regarded with some disfavour, as it too perilously resembled Sunday boating.
He was perched perilously on the seat of his wagon and was swaying from side to side, swinging his arms about him and singing in a loud maudlin voice, the fine old psalm that he had learned long, long ago before he became less than a man.
Illustration: Song of the Pays de Caux] Just after leaving Havre, on the heights which seemingly hang so perilously above the city itself are the Phares de la Hève, two great quadrangular towers which were built in 1775.
Often enough the debates were perilously suggestive of burlesque, and, when alone, he relieved himself of the laughter he had scarce restrained.
But twenty-seven drewperilously near to thirty; no, no, Sidwell could not be more than twenty-five.
Her voice was perilously soft and kind, a sweet tenderness in her manner, too.
She drew perilously close to the well and knelt over it like some priestess at her devotions; her eyes were brimming with tears and there was a roaring in her ears.
While I am at work on a subject I want to go on and on at lightning speed until I have finished, and when I have finished I am perilously near lunacy.
I had been holding myself in leash so severely for the past few weeks that I was perilously near to a severe breakdown.
Once he cried: "Quick: it is dangerous," and looking up at the crest of the Wetterhorn I saw a huge block of ice poised perilously above our downward path.
She rained and blew ceaselessly, and disarranged our plans in Flanders, so that the attack on which so much depended was driven perilously late into the year.
Touching its policy of sectional conciliation it picked its way perilously through the cross currents of public opinion.
His removal from office would have opened the door of the White House to Wade, so that strategically Johnson's position was from the beginning beleaguered and came perilously near before the close to being untenable.
The labouring blood thundered in my ears; I felt perilously near delirium.
This is a condition perilously near that in which the contemplation of suffering becomes the sole channel of pleasure, for morbid sensibility and cruelty have usually hobnobbed at the same inn.
The whole situation was rendered perilously complex by the knowledge that, unaided, he had possessed himself of so much dangerous information.
Only the family knew exactly where to sit without encroaching perilously on these; Billy's friends always dropped first into a certain chair and rocked into a dangling mass of Wandering Jew on the marble-topped table behind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perilously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
