Adjective : a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat. From Dictionary.com.
Her pronunciation on "perilously" and "gallantly" though ... is Jennifer an ESL student?. From Wordnik.com. [Film Experience Blog] Reference
In Turkey, she’s blindfolded, sworded, scaled, and standing on top of a snake, with her sword perilously close to the serpent’s head. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:] Reference
And the barge was drifting perilously near the boathouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
And sounding perilously like the man he was making a movie about. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference
This is a perilously tough category to call, but I think Cheadle gets in. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar's Burning Questions] Reference
The people of Pakistan are perilously close to an unimaginable food crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Mubashir Ahmed: The Human Cost of Pakistan's Disaster] Reference
They too had seen no relief aid in months, and the children were perilously thin. From Wordnik.com. [Living on Pennies] Reference
Before Robards came along, O'Neill had come perilously close to dramatic oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The state is perilously close to sealing a reputation as a bastion of intolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Razing Arizona] Reference
Instead, he falls perilously close to the misguided weirdness of his worst efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble In Mind?] Reference
Seems to me ADL is coming perilously close to effectively siding with the bigots here. From Wordnik.com. [ADL: If mosque-builders really wanted to promote reconcilation, they'd move] Reference
Though conditions may not be as dire today as they were then, they are perilously close. From Wordnik.com. [Prozac for the Rich] Reference
Amniotic fluid, the liquid that cushions the growing fetus, can leak to perilously low levels. From Wordnik.com. [Treating The Tiniest Patients] Reference
The arrival of YouTube makes these clips perilously easy to find, and therefore harder to resist. From Wordnik.com. [Your Broken Leg—on YouTube] Reference
Woodward shows how perilously close the White House came to blowing the bill's passage by Congress. From Wordnik.com. ['This Thing Is A Turkey'] Reference
Most of the nation's biggest movie theaters are either in bankruptcy protection or perilously close. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: Food Fight!] Reference
But last week Giambi came close — perilously close, as it turns out — to airing those specifics. From Wordnik.com. [The Doping Confessions] Reference
(R-Wis.) into Reagan National Airport strayed perilously close to a 22-seat Gulfstream business jet. From Wordnik.com. [Air traffic controller error led to near-collision over Minneapolis] Reference
And then there's my favorite: this image of a pair of feet standing perilously at the edge of a cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Pick of the day: 'Danger: Lions, tides, and barrels'] Reference
They, in short, are less bound by the need to perilously co-exist with baleful, predatory, majorities. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Toby stirred at all, the small weight he rested on the branch made the head of the tree dip perilously. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Conservative newspaper The Washington Times is perilously close to shutting down, the website DCRTV reports. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Times Near Closure: DCRTV] Reference
(Even before the quake, Haiti's public services, where they existed at all, were perilously close to collapse.). From Wordnik.com. [After Reconstruction] Reference
Some owners try to wring every last mile out of these tires, which perilously sacrifices wet - and winter grip. From Wordnik.com. [Toyota Sienna run-flat tires? Spare us.] Reference
Before the attacks, the global economy seemed perilously close to simultaneous recessions in all its major parts. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Shockwaves] Reference
Marsden, who issued the bulletin that XF 11 would pass perilously close to Earth, accepted the 600,000-mile figure. From Wordnik.com. [Never Mind!] Reference
Meredith Viera came over and said hello, and we all oohed and aahed over her perilously high black patent stilettos. From Wordnik.com. [Leslie Goldman: What It's Like To Sit Next To Crystal Renn] Reference
Thought he was walking a perilously fine line when it came to his duty, watching, waiting, doing what suited only him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bridge] Reference
Sleigh Bells would be perilously close to a trendy joke if their 30-minute-long debut album wasn't such a marvellousracket. From Wordnik.com. [Sleigh Bells: Treats] Reference
Today, the E.U. needs a new generation of leaders who can breathe life into a project that is perilously close to expiring. From Wordnik.com. [As nationalism rises, will the European Union fall?] Reference
That kind of argument takes him perilously close to Al Gore's "no controlling legal authority" line about fund-raising in 1996. From Wordnik.com. [Molding the Message] Reference
This summer will be perilously packed with blockbusters, unlike last summer when we just sat around waiting to see if "Waterworld" sucked. From Wordnik.com. [Anticipating The Joys Of Summer] Reference
Washington ignored the offer until two years later, when nuclear tensions came perilously close to triggering war on the Korean Peninsula. From Wordnik.com. [The Method To The Madness] Reference
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