Sentence examples for precarious on from inspiring English sources

This time, though, I happened upon my neighbors, one precarious on a ladder with a saw, the other anchored on the ground with a rope around his waist.

The environment remains precarious on every level.

Seeing it precarious on the linoleum, legs braced and quivering, she had a chilly intuition: this visit was not just to deliver a dog.

It left West Indies at 171 for five, with their chances of survival in the match already looking slim, even on a pitch with the potential to make batting precarious on the final day.

The match had gone to a knife edge, one of the most dramatic ever, and as Hunter Mahan steeled his nerves to play the final shot on the 17th thousands of fans stood breathless, unsteady on tiptoes, craning to see green or screen, precarious on the muddy slopes and holding on for dear life lest they slipped on the liquified hillside.

Buildings that were left damaged and precarious on 25 April may well have been felled in the following days' aftershocks, or have been put out of bounds.

Each water molecule on Earth started its precarious existence on one of these dust grains, when an oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms shackled themselves to the dust and began to share their outer electrons on their new home.

Once I struggled through the door and assumed the precarious surfboard-on-subway-positioning, we eyed each other's cumbersome baggage.

The sketch didn't go well — just one such precarious moment on a show that Louis C.K. called "stressful".

The president is out on a most precarious limb on this issue.

In Detroit, squatting is one form of precarious housing on a spectrum that includes street sleeping or doubling up in an apartment, said Herbert.