perilously

It was true that he felt perilously close to one now.

To others, though, the characters are perilously close to real life.

But in this President's case the learning has been perilously slow.

But then she says something that takes me perilously close to changing my mind.

This was getting perilously close to the important things, the reason she had agreed in the first place.

The second question sent her mind perilously close to the danger area.

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

But in the case at hand, her ground was perilously shaky.

"If you had a major fire at night and the water was perilously low, it would be a disaster."

He kept them dangling, and finally said no perilously late.

Worse now, she was perilously close to becoming his friend.

To some, this is a sign of a nation gone perilously soft.

On the contrary, we are too perilously good at it.

He'd brought her tears perilously close to the surface again.

Now she was sunk back in the same state, or perilously near to it.

Up to 50 people got in as it swung perilously over the side.

As it turns out, he was perilously close to the latter.

Often they would hit the water perilously close to the tiny boats.

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

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

When he detected them again it would be at perilously close range.

They were perilously close to the edge of the dock.

Scott was perilously close to being fired at the end of the series.

The house is now perilously close to a 50-foot drop to the Atlantic.

But the line between the two often wears perilously thin.