Example sentences for: perils

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

  • Cognizant of the perils of purchasing stationery, I start at the top, Cartier--arguably the snootiest stationer around.

  • I enjoyed Charles Bowden's account of the perils of being a young female factory worker in Mexico, safari guide Mark Ross' harrowing if sentimentally written account of his kidnapping in Uganda by Hutu rebels, and much of the front-of-the-book "Conversation" section.

  • There was endless hype for the premiere of Felicity's second season--tapes of which had been withheld from the press--because it was to provide the answer to last season's Perils of Pauline -like cliffhanger: Would the New York City college freshman Felicity fly to Berlin with her handsome and intelligent though overly chatty boyfriend Noel or drive home to California with the exceedingly handsome but markedly less intelligent Ben, an ex-crush who had become her best friend's boyfriend?

  • I may be prejudiced because I share Greider's political point of view, but I think this is the best book to date on the perils of the new world economic order.

  • Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign and the Partnership for a Drug Free America propagandized ceaselessly about the perils of drugs.


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