Sentence examples for what seems safe from inspiring English sources

What seems safe most likely is nothing more than a large bet.

Sometimes what seems safe turns out not to be -- people are abused at home, gay and allied youth are murdered in a club -- but we at least strive to make our places safe, by making them predictable.

What seems safer to conclude is that no candidate other than Mr. Romney or Mr. Gingrich is likely to win in South Carolina.

My eyes followed the blood upward to its source: four large silver hooks pierced the skin of his upper back, which was stretched far beyond what seemed safe or even possible.

Most of this was written off as propaganda, and I think what seemed safe to talk about was My Lai.

Baron: Yeah, what seems like safe is not safe.

Julia, left behind without resources or papers, finds what seems a safe retreat with Julien.

Marya Hornbacher summed it up best when she stated, "I don't remember when I stopped counting, or when I stopped caring what size my pants were, or when I started ordering what I wanted to eat and not what seemed 'safe,' or when I started just eating when I got hungry, instead of questioning it, obsessing about it, dithering and freaking out, as I'd done for nearly my whole life.

Relying on his partner to have something in diamonds, South settled for what seemed a safe three no-trump contract.

But in our era of narrower mandates and more ideologically-polarized parties, what seem like "safe" majorities have had a much shorter shelf life.

And what seems like risky is safer than what most people think of as safe.