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Example sentences for: risked

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

Or, to put it another way, perhaps the reason the president risked in-office eroticism rather than taking her to a nice hotel is that there is no nice hotel.
Those who crossed him risked corporal punishment.
Shelton was prepared to plan other options, but he was also prepared to make perfectly clear his own strong doubts about the wisdom of any military action that risked U.S. lives unless the intelligence was "actionable.
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.
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.