Sentence examples for sounded precarious from inspiring English sources

In the late 1990s such work might have sounded precarious as China closed down or sold off thousands of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), throwing millions out of work.

Her voice sounded pushed and strident, and her top notes were precarious.

That is more precarious than it might sound.

It's a precarious situation, and Groh did not sound convinced today that his team had recovered its equilibrium.

Being free to work for a pittance unless you work within narrow and shifting hours of peak demand doesn't sound quite so 'free' — and looks rather more precarious.

Being a musician is precarious, and the people who employ you – however enthusiastic they sound – are capricious.

Resurrecting his group's fortunes might sound like an overly ambitious mission for an artist in Raekwon's precarious career position to attempt, but Cuban Linx 2 makes good on the promise.

The visitors urged the students to take risks but to expect, at least at first, a precarious existence, riddled with setbacks, that will require obsessiveness and a thick skin — and they made it sound like the grandest of adventures.

"Embrace insecurity," after all, sounds like exactly the sort of message that the chancellor of the exchequer might find cynically helpful to inculcate in a society facing ever more precarious circumstances.

Inspired by Nancy Holt's pipe sculptures and Richard Serra's heft, the work eats space, alters sound and creates a precarious cavelike opening.

Sound fills space in a much more precarious, unsettling manner.