Sentence examples for slightly perilous from inspiring English sources
Happy – if slightly perilous – times.
As Scioli begins to clean out his "cavern of books," in preparation of the store's May closing, the task of sorting through the hoard is daunting, and sometimes slightly perilous.
"To do so, he must address the poor home record - eight wins from 23 league matches - that left Dale in a slightly perilous position last term.
Sudjic was drawn to the idea that novels used to be a slightly perilous moral undertaking.
Of course, she knew that being the wife of a firefighter would be slightly more perilous than being the wife of, say, a banker.
Restaurateur Russell Norman had similar – if slightly less perilous – experience when cooking risotto for the first time: "These days, I am rather good at making risotto.
The book, he said, tells the story of the origins of international law, which "we have lived with for the last 70 years" but which, "after recent events looks slightly more perilous than it did a week ago".
On the walk to the ledge, along a cliff-hugging path that is just slightly less perilous than it looks from afar, you may well be visited by fairy terns, snowy white and almost diaphanous of wing, hovering curiously close by.
Peers in the Middle East and Asia are also lining up.Investors disagree whether cocos should be viewed as perilous bonds or slightly less risky shares.
There's also a trip to the underworld, though it feels slightly wan, at least compared with the perilous and deeply felt scene it closely resembles from Philip Pullman's "Amber Spyglass".
