Sentence examples for precarious step from inspiring English sources

Yet I was riveted step by precarious step through Strayed's encounters with bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lion scat, ice, record snow and predatory men.

Every choice the protagonist makes in "Fierce Kingdom," the expertly made new thriller by Gin Phillips, is another precarious step up a gnarled decision tree.

Secure council tenants have gradually moved out and been rehoused, so the council has moved in families who were in temporary accommodation, a precarious step up from homelessness.

Drasdo's best known contribution from this era was North Crag Eliminate on Castle Rock in Thirlmere, climbed in September 1952 and involving a precarious step up off the upper boughs of a tree to regain the rock face high above the ground.

She credits her years at the Krieger School, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in German Literature before earning an artist's diploma from the Peabody Conservatory, with readying her for that precarious step.

Wondering all the while, at every precarious step, why we have built this awful suburban world for ourselves.

It's not easy to reach: take the steep and rutted path off a dirt parking lot along the Pacific Coast Highway that leads to 80 precarious steps finally spilling out onto soft sand.

The steep, precarious concrete steps between the home stay, the community and the hotel are reminding my calf muscles that they need more exercise.

Others think they are precarious tactical steps and not strategic ones.

Since several companies have test vehicles on the road, that effort at balance becomes even more precarious as states step in to fill what they fear is a growing federal vacuum.

Mostly, I cannot imagine why we are not preserving the most necessary resource at this precarious time or stepping away from oil dependence in our leisure time.