How to Use perilous in a Sentence

perilous

adjective

• Despite the risks, thousands of migrants still make the perilous journey to the U.S. each day.
  — Anne Laurent, ABC News, 17 May 2023
• Airstrikes flatten blocks of a Gaza refugee camp, bringing rage, grief and a perilous new phase of war.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• These frigid waters—as chilly as 5°C—should be perilous for the cold-blooded sharks that dwell in the tropics.
  — Bykate Hull, science.org, 11 May 2023
• This was a mischievous question—and maybe, in a room stocked with Cody Johnson fans, a perilous one.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Many, if not most, of Nolan’s films contain a warning: The search for knowledge is perilous.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• In the book, this results in a wickedly smart and perilous toddler-priestess.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• The country’s perilous situation is a troubling concern for the region, for the U.S., and for the world.
  — Therese Shaheen, National Review, 7 Feb. 2023
• The count of river herring is also up, and that could be aiding the salmon on their perilous journey from the sea to the river.
  — Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Twitter as a whole was in a perilous spot in 2016, due in part to the broader industry’s pivot to video.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The puma embarked on a perilous journey and crossed a dangerous border to make a new home.
  — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The risk of paying the ultimate price can never be removed from such a perilous sport.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 5 May 2023
• And the launch of its Odysseus spacecraft, which is 14-feet tall and has six landing legs, is just the first step in a long, perilous journey to the lunar surface.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The streets no longer exist, they have been replaced by perilous passageways on top of the rubble.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• To say Sarah is unnerved by all of this does not even come close to describing the perilous state of her sanity.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
• Meanwhile, it’s become a perilous roll of the dice as the Pac-12 sorts its expansion and revenue laundry.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2023
• The second is that soccer is a fragile, perilous business.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Though just over one-third of the way into their schedule and in possession of a respectable 29-27 record, the Sox are in a perilous position.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• Trump, 77, now faces the most legally perilous moment of his life playing out in a federal court - charges that could bring decades in prison.
  — Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
• The Changeling is a parenthood fable and a perilous odyssey through a New York City that many people didn’t know existed.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 11 July 2023
• Given the perilous condition of Peregrine's propulsion system, this was the safest fate for the spacecraft.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
• Dan Loeb is hardly the first Wall Street titan to lament how meme stock traders have made short selling a perilous endeavor.
  — Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2023
• But in the perilous and fast-changing world of late 2023, Beijing doesn’t seem interested in that sort of balance.
  — Thomas J. Duesterberg, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
• His family saw fewer tanks on the perilous journey home, and the sounds of gunfire and artillery were more sporadic.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• The struggle against the disease has entered an unpredictable, perilous new phase.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• In the meantime, the hunt for shells is occasionally perilous.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• That’s a lot of unnecessary misery, all caused by the perilous pursuit of profit.
  — Peter Ubel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The case in New York is likely to add to that scrutiny - even as many legal experts believe the case in Georgia is more perilous to Trump.
  — Holly Bailey, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
• The pair are suspected of charging migrants tens of thousands of dollars to make the arduous and perilous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border from all over the world.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
• Evacuees Face Horrors: For Gazans who have fled the northern part of the enclave where the heaviest fighting has occurred, the journey to the south has been perilous.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• But to be frank, a white person should have easily known this email was perilous since stories about Black hair have been huge news in recent years.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024