Sentence examples for a rather precarious from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a rather precarious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is unstable or risky.
Example: "The company found itself in a rather precarious financial position after the sudden market downturn."
Alternatives: "a somewhat unstable" or "a rather risky".

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The subpoena puts Mr. Kinnucan in a rather precarious position.

A staircase made from branches wraps around the outside of one house that leans at a rather precarious angle.

"I was in a rather precarious situation when this project was proposed to me," Mr. Ribes said by phone from Paris, referring to his post-prison finances.

The surge in illegal downloading has left the music industry in a rather precarious state recently so finding any job in it is a bonus.

People with two-and-a-half homes mocking three-homers for ostentation - it's a rather precarious basis for feeling that yours is the right way of being rich, isn't it?

Trump himself is in a rather precarious position on Ryancare.

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Meg teaches in a secondary school and Nick is a philosophy lecturer at a new university: his academic position, it turns out, is rather precarious, owing to a faculty row – and here Kureishi may be influenced by the fictions of JM Coetzee and Philip Roth, although the dispute is not dwelt upon.

From here you can head north along the cliff down to the beach, it's a well trodden path, though rather precarious as the sea edges closer every year.

My always rather precarious position as a non-contracted dogsbody on a national newspaper had ended just as suddenly as it had begun.

But the existence of such an entity seems to be rather precarious.

But his domestic position is rather precarious.

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