perilous

Example Sentences

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Doing so would make wartime changes in the strait permanent, inject a new price premium into oil markets and push the shipping industry down a perilous path.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

That said, relying on a future inheritance is a perilous strategy for compensation.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

With our increasing reliance on video, as opposed to journalistic reports, of events, the ability to doctor or create scenes that didn’t happen is perilous for obvious reasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"The war in the Middle East has reached a perilous stage" with the strikes on Natanz and Dimona, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

The name of the perilous place and the high pass he could not tell, or would not.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien