PERILOUS in a Sentence

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He slipped his arm about Carol's shoulder; he went down to supper rejoicing that he was cleansed of perilous stuff.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERILOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perilous
 a.  full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  He slipped his arm about Carol's shoulder; he went down to supper rejoicing that he was cleansed of perilous stuff.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest snakes sportively festooning their limbs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
4  With them he pushed off; and, after much weary pulling, and many perilous, unsuccessful onsets, he at last succeeded in getting one iron fast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
5  It was a humorously perilous business for both of us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
6  It was too obvious now that their situation was imminently perilous to need the aid of language to confirm it.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
7  There was something perilous in his position.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  In the clouded haze men became panic-stricken with the thought that the regiment had lost its path, and was proceeding in a perilous direction.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  But their situation was eminently perilous, and was becoming more so with every moment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  He has fallen off from neither," said Waldemar Fitzurse; "and since it may not better be, I will take on me the conduct of this perilous enterprise.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  Nor was he less surprised to see Richard surrounded by so many silvan attendants, the outlaws, as they seemed to be, of the forest, and a perilous retinue therefore for a prince.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  Once only we saw a trace that someone had passed that perilous way before us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
14  As a matter of fact, burglars who have done a good stroke of business are, as a rule, only too glad to enjoy the proceeds in peace and quiet without embarking on another perilous undertaking.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
15  These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they stood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJ...
Example Sentence:
1  Their perilous journey across the ocean has attracted public attention.
2  Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
3  The switch hovered in the air -- the peril was desperate -- "My! Look behind you, aunt!" The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger.
4  Mighty Mouse will save the day, hunting down every malefactor and rescuing innocent mice from peril.
5  The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
6  Anybody linked with the Republican cause would be in peril of their life under the Fascists.