How do you use Dangerously in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like perilously, plus the exact meaning.
Dangerously meaning
In a dangerous manner; so as to cause danger.
Synonyms of Dangerously
Using Dangerously
- The main meaning on this page is: In a dangerous manner; so as to cause danger.
- Useful related words include: perilously, hazardously.
- In the example corpus, dangerously often appears in combinations such as: dangerously close, dangerously high, dangerously low.
Context around Dangerously
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dangerously
- In this selection, "dangerously" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, driving, dog, driven, high, low and close stand out and add context to how "dangerously" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dog dangerously out of and 2023 when dangerously high temperatures. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dangerously" sits close to words such as amino, bce and booming, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dangerously
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bloodstream infections cause fever, chills, dangerously low blood pressure, and blistering skin lesions. (13 words)
Amirul got scared when the driver drove dangerously fast and almost hit three cars. (14 words)
A CAR was driven dangerously around a estate before two people were arrested, police say. (15 words)
Another Google search recorded a global total of only five news stories about a scientific study showing the likelihood of major world crop losses caused by climate change are being dangerously underestimated. (32 words)
Ashton pleaded guilty to driving dangerously in Cheltenham on October 11, 2021 and was now sentenced to a 12-month suspended jail term and banned from driving for a year. (30 words)
City are in a difficult position, with back-to-back defeats, no permanent manager, uncertainty from above and with the club lingering dangerously above the Vanarama National League relegation zone. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
A 38-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control.
About 100 inmates at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater refused to return to their cells on Sept. 3, 2023, when dangerously high temperatures plagued the region.
A CAR was driven dangerously around a estate before two people were arrested, police say.
A couple living in a bungalow that is dangerously close to falling into the sea have begged for help so they do not "lose our dream home".
A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Muhammad Sanusi, said Nigeria has been ‘dangerously’ divided by ethnicity and religion.
A jury has retired in the trial of a lorry driver accused of killing a grandfather of six by driving dangerously.
All of this comes on the heels of a summer where one-third of the United States’ population has seen heat domes and dangerously high temperatures.
A man has admitted to being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control which caused life-changing and catastrophic injuries to his next door neighbour.
Amirul got scared when the driver drove dangerously fast and almost hit three cars.
And caffeine, a stimulant drug, can cause anxiety, dehydration, nausea, and a dangerously high heart rate.
Another Google search recorded a global total of only five news stories about a scientific study showing the likelihood of major world crop losses caused by climate change are being dangerously underestimated.
As a result, when bags were changed, Baby F continued to have dangerously low blood sugar levels despite increasing infusions of dextrose.
Ashton pleaded guilty to driving dangerously in Cheltenham on October 11, 2021 and was now sentenced to a 12-month suspended jail term and banned from driving for a year.
As Professor Slughorn explained, Liquid Luck can be deadly if used too much and can lead a user to become dangerously overconfident.
Bernard Valentine, 33, from Ackers Lane, Carrington, is facing eight counts of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control which caused injury.
Bloodstream infections cause fever, chills, dangerously low blood pressure, and blistering skin lesions.
City are in a difficult position, with back-to-back defeats, no permanent manager, uncertainty from above and with the club lingering dangerously above the Vanarama National League relegation zone.
Deborah Patterson, 61, of Southville Terrace, Harrogate, was fined over £1,200 for being in charge of a dangerously-out-of-control dog which injured a named man.
Despite Johnson’s efforts, the road was still dangerously steep and narrow, clogged with granite boulders and often blanketed in suffocating dust.
Earlier in the day the Wareham station was called to the centre of the town to deal with a 'dangerously hanging cable' which had been brought down by the wind.
Common combinations with dangerously
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dangerously close 28×
- dangerously high 18×
- dangerously low 15×
- dangerously out 14×
- driving dangerously 13×
- and dangerously 13×
- is dangerously 11×
- to dangerously 9×
- are dangerously 8×
- dog dangerously 7×