perilously close

Examples (20)

• The car came perilously close to running her down.
• The climber came perilously close to the edge of the cliff.
• The company was perilously close to bankruptcy last year.
• The company is perilously close to filing for bankruptcy.
• The hiker stood perilously close to the cliff's edge.
• Inflation has brought the country's economy perilously close to collapse.
• Our team came perilously close to losing the championship game.
• His actions during the meeting were perilously close to being illegal.
• The ancient artifact was perilously close to crumbling into dust.
• The small boat drifted perilously close to the jagged rocks.
• During the storm, the ship sailed perilously close to the rocky coast.
• The two nations are perilously close to going to war over the border dispute.
• He felt he was perilously close to revealing the secret.
• She realized she was perilously close to failing her final exam.
• The nation teetered perilously close to civil war.
• The forest fire came perilously close to the residential neighborhood.
• After the accident, the patient was perilously close to death.
• The team's budget is perilously close to running out completely this month.
• We are perilously close to missing our project deadline.
• We were perilously close to missing our flight due to the heavy traffic.