Meanings of perilously low in English

Although the food had been carefully husbanded, it was running perilously low.

The food in the larder, supplied from the houseboat, had grown perilously low.

So many vessels were sunk that our reserve of oil fuel became perilously low.

The little boat was well loaded and settled perilously low after all had gotten in.

Sonjica said Africa's biggest economy was suffering from a perilously low electricity reserve margin or spare capacity.

Their store of fuel was perilously low.

Illegal hunting of wolves is thought to be extensive in Norway, driving down population numbers to perilously low levels.

Cod will be replaced in Birds Eye fish fingers by pollock after experts warned that cod stocks are perilously low.

She wore a dress of black sequins, cut perilously low, and shorn a little by wear of its pristine splendour.

The Marine Conservation Society is advising people not to eat fish from this stock, as they remain at perilously low levels.

Unusually for an O'Neill play and perhaps even more unusual for a play about a gambler, the dramatic stakes are perilously low.

I should then find out what you consider to be his most precious possession, she said, and her voice was perilously low.

With a reserve perilously low and a refusal of Congressional aid, everything indicated that the end of gold payments by the Government was imminent.

A Gallup poll this week gave the president an approval rating of only 42%, perilously low for a president seeking re-election next year.

Flying in low one day, the tow plane having long since released him, he had sunk perilously low, maybe two hundred feet above the treetops.

But port was still far away, they having been chased one hundred and fifty miles out of their course, and fuel was getting perilously low.