Example sentences for: peril

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

  • Scientist-temps are becoming more common in laboratories, according to the Washington Post . Reports of deformed frogs are spreading across America, Canada, and Japan; USA Today warns that this may be an "early warning sign" of an emerging environmental peril.

  • 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.

  • In Justice Department briefs and in private meetings, the Secret Service insisted that the failure to recognize the privilege: would result in "profound and predictable peril" to the president, "could mean the difference between life or death," would endanger "the integrity of our national security," etc.

  • Texaco 's PR troubles eased, while its legal peril deepened.

  • Russia's economy is in peril.


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