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    Use "perilous" in a sentence

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    perilous


    1. The situation was perilous, but the odds that it would actually hit the planet were still much less than the odds that it would come close


    2. Other instances of note came along from time to time, some less perilous than others, but always each was met with the singleness of direction, resolve and purpose the Livingsons brought to their every endeavor


    3. For his own interest and safety, therefore, he might find it necessary, in this very perilous situation, to go on for some time, endeavouring, however, to withdraw gradually, and, upon that account, making every day greater and greater difficulties about discounting, in order to force these projectors by degrees to have recourse, either to other bankers, or to other methods of raising money : so as that he himself might, as soon as possible, get out of the circle


    4. My other uncles reassembled, but our little fleet was in a perilous condition


    5. In other words, the planet which is a test bed for living beings goes through a ‘rebooting’ process, every time the beings cause their own perilous exit


    6. He towered over even his own warriors, and his presence was intimidating, even in the less perilous times


    7. Ted picked the gun up and I grabbed the haversack full of its drum shaped magazines from the body of one of the gun crew and then we started on our perilous journey back to the trench


    8. Nonetheless, the Council had approved this mission, and she would surely never be allowed into such a perilous situation unmonitored


    9. After nine minutes of this effective shelling, the Spaniards fortunately held fire, and thus the crowded troops behind the ridge were able to move from their perilous position


    10. Conal turned to look at the faint lights shed by the houses along the distant shore, knowing that there was no way they could make such a perilous swim with an unconscious girl in tow

    11. When Fidel Castro permitted the mass exodus, thousands chose for themselves and their children an incredibly perilous voyage aboard anything that could float over continuing to live as they did


    12. Maybe it was God’s doing, testing him for purity of heart and strength of purpose to steel him further in order to come through the always perilous journey of Pilgrimage


    13. That was good to keep Raul from walking into a trap, but did nothing to reassure Truman that Gordon’s office would be any less perilous


    14. He wrote, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come


    15. “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power” (2 Tim


    16. understood that this wired bag of chemicals had to be in top shape in order to navigate the perilous journey of life


    17. One might easily allow oneself to be spoon-fed history, but it was perilous to the


    18. During this perilous time, we interviewed replacement workers at a motel that served as our headquarters during the strike


    19. Neither had he sensed anything beyond that he had arrived in his own lands after his perilous journey, although the state of him could not be guessed at, physically or of the mind


    20. “Our condition is becoming perilous

    21. Knowing the new-found family connection between Johan and the Lost One, and the friendship forged on their perilous journey to save Gathandria, Annyeke paused and took both Johan’s hands in her own, as much as she could


    22. Perilous, the route is, however


    23. Each of the spider creatures was caught in a perilous fight


    24. It was a long and perilous scooter ride to his house – a grand two storeyed edifice where I was somewhat taken aback by the presence of a wife and two children


    25. On the second weekend they made the perilous, three hundred and fifty metre ascent up the escarpment to the tablelands where they spent two days and a night tramping between swamps, covered in mud to deter biting insects


    26. “Let’s not digress into the perilous paths the religions had laid for man to his bane,” said the seer


    27. She feared him, told herself she loathed his raw brute strength and unashamed barbarism, yet something breathless and perilous inside her leaned toward him; the hidden primitive chord that lurks in every woman's soul was sounded and responded


    28. Again the governor knelt, for part of his wisdom was the knowledge that a woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her


    29. The path they had traversed was a perilous one, even for hill-men, and for that reason Conan had avoided it that day when carrying Yasmina, though Kerim Shah, following him, had taken it supposing the Cimmerian had done likewise


    30. Then came a startling interruption to a scene at once ludicrous and perilous

    31. To spend his declining years surrounded by his family was his dearest wish, and the prime reason for undertaking his perilous journey


    32. Such a lack of control over perilous circumstances has only one great placebo – superstition


    33. There was no terror in the eyes of the fish: she appeared to be enjoying every minute of her perilous descent


    34. they burst out laughing together, revelling in the thrill of their perilous


    35. His overconfidence and miscalculations caused the German army to find itself in a most perilous situation, and he had no one to blame but himself for the great German disaster in 1945


    36. "1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come


    37. Her perilous journey of the night had been all for naught


    38. "1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power


    39. It says, God calls those days perilous days, and so when people are wrapped up in a culture or in a mentality that it's about me and my fulfilment, then what happens is, we miss the best part of God's work, which is always concerned with something bigger than just ourselves


    40. “Having said that, a dark, perilous time is before us and before you, darker than has ever been experienced in the history of Midgard,” he said gravely, as his countenance fell before Lucia’s eyes

    41. She could not describe in words what was happening, but she could sense Midgard swing toward a perilous and dark season


    42. trail which they were undertaking was even more perilous


    43. protect her till her marriage, an accomplished teacher acts as a charioteer who skilfully manoeuvers his disciple’s Soul safely across the perilous


    44. The words of the now familiar sounding phrase ‘Looks like corridor blank is another perilous dead-end’ passed into the nearby ears of the languid Dr


    45. In a moment of poor life decisions, the task of writing down the names of the perilous dead-end corridors was specifically delegated to Rip


    46. Writing down the names of the perilous dead-ends may have been the easiest task on the ship, but it was also the most important


    47. They tend to just follow the orders of whatever seemingly intelligent being is at the helm of the main ship and not ask too many questions, no matter how ridiculous or perilous they may be, or how clearly they are being influenced by his gambling drunkard of a co-pilot


    48. Their dry throats only served as a pesky reminder for their perilous situation


    49. From there he’d made a perilous journey to Australia where he joined the army


    50. Choose the path that is perilous and leads to certain annihilation because it’s also the path that leads to me











































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    Synonyms for "perilous"

    parlous perilous precarious touch-and-go hazardous critical risky ticklish

    "perilous" definitions

    fraught with danger