Example sentences for: peril

How can you use “peril” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I don't know about you, but I've always thought the potential peril for Bush wasn't "younger, wilder" but "older, milder"--that is, he's not nearly as conservative as the GOP would like to believe.

  • She publishes the Pentagon Papers at great peril to the company and stares down Richard Nixon over Watergate when he threatens to revoke the company's lucrative broadcast licenses.

  • Toward the end of his life, he wrote: If egotism for a moment is pardonable, no false shame deters me from avowing that, though I have lived away from America upwards of forty-six years, I feel, to this hour, in writing English, that I am writing a foreign language, and that, if not incessantly on my guard, I am in peril of stumbling.

  • But as the Newt peril fades, Democratic differences are becoming clearer.

  • Confidence in the innate superiority of the Caucasian race--and, within that race, of its Anglo-Saxon variant--coexisted with paranoia about the yellow peril and black "savagery."


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