Example sentences for: perils

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

  • 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.

  • Just as drunken drivers convicted of manslaughter are forced to recount their sins to high schoolers, Clinton could probably give a superb heart-to-heart speech on the perils of infidelity.

  • The greatest perils to your precious data are the programs you've installed on your computer.

  • One of the well-deserved perils of writing a column like this is that occasionally someone will come along and, because of something you've written, call you--pardon my French--a "dumbfuck."

  • No serious student of history can afford to ignore these well-reasoned and withering reflections on the perils of pseudo-scholarship."


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