Example sentences for: risking

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

  • She has learned how to evade her past, like Maria Wyeth in Play It As It Lays (1970) and Charlotte Douglas in A Book of Common Prayer (1977), who cope with crisis by living only "in the now," never risking "the backward glance."

  • President Clinton managed to get credit for it without risking a single American soldier, since the United States provided logistical support.

  • These comparisons obscure the difference between risking one's life in war, as Jack and Joe did, and risking it playing football.

  • Leaving aside the fact that IBM would not even consider doing this and risking its credibility and reputation, it is a preposterous charge because whoever stepped in to help the machine would be a better player than Kasparov.

  • The wall started out as barbed wire and road blocks, but refugees continued to make their way through the barriers, by swimming through sewers and canals and jumping from buildings and railway bridges — risking life and limb for freedom and democracy.


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