Example sentences for: perils

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

  • 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?

  • 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."

  • Further perils to your data are programs like operating systems and browsers, which are supposed to protect you from harm.

  • These are as morally instructive in their way as the works of another, far greater sentimentalist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin . Quindlen's first novel, Object Lessons , is a coming-of-age story about the perils of letting others tell you what to do in life.

  • Spreading out from the base of the pyramid are those who have less suitably certified educations or no formal education at all, people who may have mixed feelings about “book learning,” “big words,” “fancy degrees,” “eggheads,” “highbrows,” and “absent-minded professors,” as well as the perils of scholarship, science, and technology.


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