Sentence examples for precariously by from inspiring English sources

When an acrobat hangs precariously by a chain right above your head, it's difficult to be a passive observer.

For 10 years, relative peace on the border with Israel had been maintained precariously by the presence of the UNEF stationed on the Egyptian side.

One of his most notorious dresses was held together precariously by safety pins, and exposed enough of Elizabeth Hurley's flesh to launch her career.

Just as other romances are strung from the vagaries of fortune, misunderstanding, rift and reconciliation, this one clings precariously by its fingernails to the Uncertainty Principle.

With the episode dangling precariously by its teeth and its eyebrows, you sense that only the arrival of the Nazis can save it.

In short, which it wasn't, the address was like most SOTUs: a grab bag held together precariously by a couple of overarching ideas and a sprinkling of uplifting rhetoric.

In the kitchen, dirty pans and pots were stacked precariously, tended by cockroaches.

Everything was held precariously together by the person of the monarch, a formidable legal apparatus and a complex system of conciliar administration.

Henceforth Rockefeller's budgets were precariously balanced by ever more resourceful tax increases, bond issues, hiring freezes and off-budget public authorities.

There was a brief opening act: Arto Lindsay, the onetime Lounge Lizard, whose broad forehead, seventies-style eyeglasses, and sturdy teeth seemed precariously supported by his reedy frame, played a thunderous cadenza on a pale-blue electric guitar.

The trucks are then driven across the border to areas precariously held by Syrian opposition forces and Islamist groups including Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qa'ida's official branch in Syria, which is also fighting against Isis.