How to Use precarious in a Sentence

precarious

adjective

• The strong wind almost knocked him off of his precarious perch on the edge of the cliff.
• He earned a precarious livelihood by gambling.
• The dry spell comes at a precarious time for the state's canopy.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• Big Sam then took them from the precarious lows of two points off ninth to the heady heights of eighth.
  — SI.com, 16 May 2018
• The top spot in the polls has been a precarious spot so far this season.
  — Carlos Silva Jr., USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
• The kitchens the food came from didn’t get less precarious to work in, if the restaurants stayed open at all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• For all of them, the stakes of precarious housing were high.
  — Samantha M. Shapiro, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Many of the ledges, rocks and cliffs are precarious and slippery.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 16 May 2022
• Even when the deal was struck, the Met’s finances were precarious.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2020
• The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
  — Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• That was the most precarious and unpredictable vote in the process.
  — Kevin Freking, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021
• There’s a lot of front-of-house success, but the bones of my business right now are so precarious.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
• The somber findings marked the end of a dangerous search through the remnants of the precarious structure.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 5 June 2023
• These five weeks are always the most precarious as the structure goes away for the players.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 14 June 2018
• Cuba’s regime may be in the most precarious state of its 63 years in power.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• This is a precarious time for his fourth album, Utopia, to land.
  — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
• The death of her son left Olympias in a precarious position.
  — National Geographic, 3 Dec. 2019
• That was such a precarious ruling—so easy to roll back.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
• The magnitude of the problem, for gig workers alone, is a sign of how precarious these jobs are.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2020
• The right tone is at a very precarious place that could have so easily gone wrong.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• After a precarious scramble down, group members traversed the grassy base of the domes and came to the edge of the state park at Peace Valley.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
• The new measures come as Italy faces its most precarious moment of the summer.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• Selling to both sides in a time of war can be a precarious position.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 May 2019
• And even in places where schools remain open, plans feel precarious.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
• Stocks have yet to price in the economy’s precarious position, with the S&P 500 adding about 7% this year.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• And to make the situation even more precarious, his third baby was on the way.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• If more sanctions are piled on top, things could get even more precarious.
  — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
• The statue has a precarious-seeming place on the stretch of the Strip between the Mirage and Treasure Island.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• With its Gold Rush days long behind it, Oatman’s 2024 economy is a little more precarious.
  — Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
• The big picture: Job security could hardly be lower for incumbents across the world's wealthy democracies, who have almost universally presided over years of high inflation and precarious post-pandemic economies.
  — Dave Lawler, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024