How to Use precarious in a Sentence

precarious

adjective

• The strong wind almost knocked him off of his precarious perch on the edge of the cliff.
• He earned a precarious livelihood by gambling.
• Now the war in Ukraine is driving the cost of living up, leaving many in precarious conditions.
  — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
• One of the problems with what gets on television is that executives are in a very precarious position.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2022
• Ardern cautioned that the situation for women in many other countries was precarious.
  — Nick Perry, ajc, 26 Oct. 2022
• Whether Trump would save Johnson remains to be seen, as the former president’s track record with speakers has been precarious at best.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Sep. 2024
• Just be cautious — this is also hurricane season, and Stuart is in a pretty precarious spot along the Atlantic coast.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
• It was made even more precarious by a wave of demonstrations over the July 3 killing of a popular newspaper editor by two police agents.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• The layoffs highlight the precarious status of H-1B workers, who can quickly lose their right to live here if their employer jettisons their job to cut costs.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2022
• The dry spell comes at a precarious time for the state's canopy.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• Big Sam then took them from the precarious lows of two points off ninth to the heady heights of eighth.
  — SI.com, 16 May 2018
• The top spot in the polls has been a precarious spot so far this season.
  — Carlos Silva Jr., USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
• The kitchens the food came from didn’t get less precarious to work in, if the restaurants stayed open at all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• For all of them, the stakes of precarious housing were high.
  — Samantha M. Shapiro, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Many of the ledges, rocks and cliffs are precarious and slippery.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 16 May 2022
• Even when the deal was struck, the Met’s finances were precarious.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2020
• The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
  — Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• That was the most precarious and unpredictable vote in the process.
  — Kevin Freking, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021
• There’s a lot of front-of-house success, but the bones of my business right now are so precarious.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
• The somber findings marked the end of a dangerous search through the remnants of the precarious structure.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 5 June 2023
• These five weeks are always the most precarious as the structure goes away for the players.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 14 June 2018
• Cuba’s regime may be in the most precarious state of its 63 years in power.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• This is a precarious time for his fourth album, Utopia, to land.
  — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2023
• The death of her son left Olympias in a precarious position.
  — National Geographic, 3 Dec. 2019
• That was such a precarious ruling—so easy to roll back.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
• The magnitude of the problem, for gig workers alone, is a sign of how precarious these jobs are.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2020
• The right tone is at a very precarious place that could have so easily gone wrong.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• After a precarious scramble down, group members traversed the grassy base of the domes and came to the edge of the state park at Peace Valley.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
• The new measures come as Italy faces its most precarious moment of the summer.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• Selling to both sides in a time of war can be a precarious position.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 May 2019

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024