Example sentences for: perils

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

  • As a coda to our conversation yesterday about the perils of technology run amok, see today's "Work & Family" column in the Wall Street Journal , in which "A Technology Junkie Learns To Live Life a Little Less Plugged in."

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

  • 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.

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


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