How to Use dicey in a Sentence

dicey

adjective

• Starting a business can be quite a dicey proposition.
• The weather looks a little dicey this morning. I hope it doesn't rain.
• The prospect of enough GOP flips, then, made the math a bit dicey.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• Throughout the season, the Hawks have proven to be a dicey matchup.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
• Things were dicey at first, but Perea worked on the respect.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• But a 9-0 game got a bit dicey with a four-run seventh.
  — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Tears to Triumph Here’s where things start to get a bit dicey.
  — Caroline Tew, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Coming out publicly at the end of the ‘60s was dicey, but didn’t phase him.
  — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2022
• The Dodgers pulled ahead in the bottom of the eighth, and things got dicey for Jansen when the first two batters reached in the ninth.
  — Mike Digiovanna, latimes.com, 16 June 2019
• On the par-4 15th hole, his second shot cleared the pond but left him a dicey chip near the right green-side bunker.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• There was a time when riding a bike in the city was simple, if a bit dicey.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2022
• It’s when your beloved pooch makes his way onto the bed that things can get dicey.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2020
• Things got dicey late, thanks to another rough day for the bullpen.
  — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
• But figuring out which path the Tigers will take is dicey.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2020
• Billups did point out that two wins, the first game at Phoenix and at Miami, were dicey.
  — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2022
• Leaving it up to me to find things is a dicey proposition.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• That over will still be dicey as point projections are right around 48 for this game.
  — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 22 Nov. 2019
• In Amherst, these are dicey times for the state’s flagship men’s basketball team.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• Of course, the RV should go do the errand and come right back, though this would seem a dicey situation to be in.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• But if both Netflix and the military want to sell Space Force T-shirts, that's where things get dicey.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
• So there’s a chance 2022 will be pretty dicey in Minnesota as Maeda heals and the kids gets ready for the big show.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Monday, the Spurs got steady minutes from Vassell and Eubanks at a point in the game when things still looked dicey.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2021
• There were certainly some dicey pins but at the same time there were guys that shot under par.
  — Geoff Shackelford, USA TODAY, 14 June 2018
• But the party’s prospects for November are still dicey.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2018
• But long-term prospects will be dicey until the waters recede.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2019
• As far behind the bag as Simmons was, the slide was going to look dicey unless Odor had gone straight.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 2 June 2018
• But that would be a dicey thing to do in our era, so the film backs off from any ambiguity.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• If the calculations are wrong, well, things could get dicey.
  — Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
• Those water temps are very dicey and don’t allow for mistakes.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
• Here’s a hypothetical scenario which attests to just how dicey this could get.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024