Sentence examples for precarious perch from inspiring English sources

It has earned the name because of its precarious perch over open foundations below the structure.

Then from each side Blackshirts appeared treading the same precarious perch.

The narrator's life is suffused with the fear that his father will fall from his precarious perch of respectability.

Even the most precarious perch in the new India is too precious to be abandoned for the old.

From his precarious perch 60 feet above morning rush hour, Wang Fulin watched the restless crowd below.

In some cases, we are trying to take what appear to be reasonable steps, mostly in order to protect our precarious perch in the world's economy.

They are beautiful hand grenades, the illusion heightened by their precarious perches over a hard floor.

Beginning in the 1990's, she contends, younger artists started easing drawing back from the precarious perches it had ascended in the preceding two or three decades.

He would scale precarious perches with construction workers and point his lens toward the ground hundreds of feet below, or mount his camera, sometimes equipped with a fisheye lens, on poles as long as 42 feet, so he could snap the shutter remotely and even photograph himself.

Six teams are uncomfortably close to their precarious playoff perch, and the Rangers are 4-12-1 4-12-1 4-12-1even teagainstad of them in the conference sevenings.

There was a time astonishing to a contemporary New Yorker, shuffling ratlike to a precarious lunchtime perch at a Hale and Hearty Soups when the places you'd go for a nosh and a cup were genuinely splendid, spacious and rich in an overcharge of luxury.