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"Peril" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Many wild animals are in peril of losing their lives.
They faced the peril of falling rocks.
For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
Generations of Americans were taught to fear—miscegenation, "the yellow peril," Italians, communism.
Unless a nation's existence is in peril, war is murder.
The bath which Chloe had taken was apparently more fraught with peril than the sea from which he had escaped.
Sami realized the peril he was in.
Uprose the image of my father dear, / as there I see the monarch, bathed in blood, / like him in prowess and in age his peer. / Uprose Creusa, desolate and drear, / Iulus' peril, and a plundered home.
On the evening of the day when the Lord Keeper and his daughter were saved from such imminent peril, two strangers were seated in the most private apartment of a small obscure inn, or rather alehouse, called the Tod's Den, about three or four miles from the Castle of Ravenswood.
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Your life is in peril.
the perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc.)
And are we, Mr. President, who stood by our country then, who threw open our coffers, who bared our bosoms, who freely perilled all in that conflict, to be reproached with want of attachment to the Union?
"I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"
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