perilous
Example Sentences
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"Perilous, crisis: these are not buzz words. This is the truth of what we're seeing."
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2022
Perilous Porch: We’re all aging, if we’re lucky enough to be north of the dirt line.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2022
Finally, just out from one of the most amazing writers alive today, there’s “The Ballad of Perilous Graves,” a quest through New Orleans for a missing Song of Power.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022
"Perilous conditions are hampering our efforts to access civilians - or for them to access us. Civilians must be allowed to move to safer areas without the fear of attacks," Griffiths told the U.N.
From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022
It was Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, the same one I’d been reading before.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
Vocabulary lists containing perilous
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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