Example sentences for: risked

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

  • Having risked appearing foolish in the cause of his art; having tackled his parts with demented, hyperbolic integrity, letting the madness of his roles infuse him and carry him into the ether; having snagged an Oscar for his besotted, bebop melancholia in Leaving Las Vegas ; Nicolas Cage has now set out to prove that he can be as much of an overmuscled jackass as Sylvester Stallone.

  • Additional material was not requested, since this would have posed an undue burden on the clinical site staff and would have risked raising questions about emerging differences among treatment groups.

  • Which means that the stuff risked being stuffy, if you can say that about jeweled ornaments.

  • But this too would have risked embarrassment, since Clinton is an acknowledged computer illiterate and can't type.

  • Berger agreed with Talbott that using other sticks, such as blocking loans from international financial institutions, would have risked a collapse of the Pakistani government and the rise of Islamists to power in a nuclear-armed country.


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