Sentence examples for precarious that from inspiring English sources

Concerned with issues that affect Chinatown's immigrants, Ms. Ling said her own story — her Chinatown tenement burned down in 2008, rendering her homeless for a year — helped show her how important, yet precarious, that community is.

In Oyeyemi's short story, we see how precarious that can be: with her locked diary, Eva protects herself from being pried open and objectified; her co-workers, by plotting to steal her diary, threaten her mind, a more insidious tactic than trying to subjugate her body.

Choose a place that has nothing precarious that could fall on the cat and avoid any rooms with too many hiding spots, or you may never find the cat again.

But almost unwittingly her book shows how improbable and precarious that model is.

Ultimately the covenant is so precarious that it must be supplemented by binding law.

The knot was so precarious that one clumsy tug would collapse it.

But these precious lifelines are even more precarious than that.

Antonio Karitiana, the village chief, said that health care, sanitation and housing were precarious, and that transportation was deficient.

Some antievolution groups suggest that evolutionary theory finds itself in this precarious situation but that is a misrepresentation.

They fear that the new fee will upend the precarious equilibrium that keeps the small club circuit in business.

Local people fear that a drop-in center will undermine the precarious peace that has settled over their neighborhood.