precariously

Example Sentences

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Germans ignored it out of shame; Jews, living precariously in exile, rejected it as too assimilated and bourgeois.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Arsenal will spend Christmas Day on top of the Premier League tree this year, while Wolves, Burnley and West Ham are hanging precariously on the bottom branches.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

Technical strategists see incongruities like this as a sign that the index’s strength has been predicated, somewhat precariously, on the success of a minority of its stocks, making it more vulnerable to adverse developments.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025

On one hand, Oracle today looks perfectly positioned, and on the other, precariously perched, which isn’t an unusual position for the company.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

The yarn is easily found, a ball of it sits precariously on a pile of books.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern