Sentence examples for precariously low from inspiring English sources

World grain stocks have slumped to a precariously low level.

The opera company's endowment is precariously low, just half the size of its operating budget.

Indeed, the main reason oil prices are now surging beyond OPEC's control is that the Saudi buffer is precariously low.

And a growing number of marine species are reaching the precariously low levels where extinction is considered a real possibility.

He said the bank might be forced to sell assets, issue equity or cut its dividend to shore up precariously low capital levels.

Citigroup announced last night that it was selling a $7.5 billion stake to a Middle Eastern sovereign fund in the latest bid to shore up its precariously low capital base.

In their place, the research points to a new seven-degree hierarchy from "elite" to "precariat," those at the bottom who live precariously with low levels of economic, cultural and social capital.

But even in good years, profits were precariously small.

One photo showed a truck perched precariously at the broken edge of the carriageway.

Thousands of children, women and men survive precariously, living in small thatched shelters.

To be sure, the unpaid internship is only part of a phenomenon that includes the growing numbers of temps, freelancers, adjuncts, self-employed "entrepreneurs" and other low-wage or precariously employed workers who live gig by gig.