Sometimes the layered spirals seemed to lead a precarious life of their own.

I find life precarious enough in my present humble situation.

Your husband has the blood of the Celts, and you lead a very precarious life.

Having illegal status means a precarious life, he said.

Every lurch of time down its one-way streets makes life more frightening and precarious.

Many agricultural people moved to cities and threw themselves into new precarious lives.

A hard, rough, precarious life based on a precarious economy.

It's one way, and certainly not the worst, to live the always precarious life of a performer.

The result was that he led rather a precarious life, though never being actually in want.

But the company acknowledged that the scandal made its already precarious life even more difficult.