It was a plan that had come perilously close to succeeding.

But apparently, some of the ad came perilously close to the truth.

Didn't we come perilously close to it ourselves a couple of times?

Today it is clear that Baghdad came perilously close to getting the bomb.

Williams came perilously close to such a fate but says he is back to complete health.

To be kin to such a one was to come perilously close to weakness.

Still, the flames took some homes and came perilously close to others.

But he had come perilously close to the danger point in there.

How could she, of all people, have come so perilously close to being swept away by desire?

After all my efforts to bring this moment about, I came perilously close to not knowing what to say.