Sentence examples for making a precarious from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the pencils are all aligned across both screens, making a precarious bridge.

You might also consider that 50% of the film workforce is self-employed, many of them making a precarious living at best.

There's a story here in which a woman making a precarious living in New York frantically tries to tidy up her apartment before the arrival of her judgmental, small-town sister.

Mr Jones, "a very poetical little fellow", as his son remembered him, spent the week making a precarious living as a picture framer and on Sundays took his son to spend long hours beside his mother's grave.

For a number of years she made a precarious living with various minor jobs.

Jabber (Ghassas Abbas) is a glum, heavy-set man who makes a precarious living showing films to children in the towns and refugee camps of the West Bank.

Schwitters, a highly talented conventional artist, made a precarious living painting portraits and landscapes after fleeing from the Nazis, first to Norway, then to Britain.

"Withdrawing funding from the only 24-hour missing persons charity without saying how they are going to invest in the future has made a precarious situation one that threatens to be catastrophic," said Martin Houghton-Brown, Missing People's chief executive.

At the same time, in order to make a precarious living, Koning turned his hand to all manner of other writing - from studies of the Dutch Masters to children's literature.

Voyager was difficult to fly, and came close to killing him a number of times — first on takeoff, when its fuel-filled wings bent so far as to touch the ground — but in December , 1986 it made a precarious twenty-five-thousand-mile flight, in nine days.

It must be something in the leeks... Robin Llewellyn is your run of the mill seedy, hard-drinking detective who just about stumbles on to the right side of the law as he makes a precarious living, until the day he is offered a small fortune by a woman to entrap her husband by recruiting a willing prostitute and filming the consequences.