Words similar to risked

Example sentences for: risked

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

But this small victory for Hillary came at a cost of some embarrassment to Cuomo, who now looks a little like a partisan thug (and a disloyal thug at that, since Giuliani risked his career to endorse Andrew's father Mario in the 1994 New York governor's race.)
a) Whistleblower (see d under Minuses): risked humiliation to expose something she believed was wrong.
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.
It revealed "a terrible impotence" against ethnic cleansing that risked becoming a sinister example not only for the Balkans but for the rest of the world.
But this too would have risked embarrassment, since Clinton is an acknowledged computer illiterate and can't type.