precarious

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Droughts, competition for land, and the loss of their slaves have made the nomadic existence increasingly precarious.

Modifies a noun

• existence: Such books were a threat to the already precarious existence of Trotskyism in the labor movement.
• perch: They arrived and got me off my precarious perch just before I let go.
• ledge: You can't miss it just look for the precarious ledges where normal people you would not want to spend their day!
• dependence: Radiator x thinks they really got precarious dependence on.
• position: Despite our precarious position in the league at least we have a football club.
• situation: Such a precarious situation may be better for Asia's bond markets than stocks.

Modifying Another Word

• financially: However, it could be a financially precarious solution.
• somewhat: The whole operation was somewhat precarious in bad conditions.
• increasingly: These findings are especially significant given the increasingly precarious predicament of many young people.
• rather: Fridays struggle on in a rather precarious manner - we need a regular venue.
• extremely: The human rights situation of these Roma is, today, extremely precarious.
• equally: However, concentrating too hard in one sector is equally precarious.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Without statutory status the future of local authority services will remain precarious.
• become: The fossil fuel economy is becoming ever more precarious.
• look: The shed now looked even more precarious now everything had been cleared out.
• feel: Early examples felt precarious, current ones claim to be better.
• appear: Our future, at least in the developed world, appears more precarious than it has ever been.
• make: In Yorkshire, Parliamentary forces are withdrawn from Selby, their position made precarious by the defection of Scarborough.