How to Use peril in a Sentence

peril

noun

• People are unaware of the peril these miners face each day.
• The gains were short-lived, and the progress is now in peril.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2021
• When the captain of the ship isn't at the wheel, the boat could be in peril.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
• Even a drive to the grocery store is fraught with peril.
  — Angela Rocco Decarlo, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2019
• Even the walk from the front door to the gutter is beset with peril.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Both sides voiced concerns that the fast pace of the process carries perils.
  — Kartikay Mehrotra, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• The suit claims the plaintiffs' lives are in peril while inside.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2020
• The peril for the Padres is that two strikes might as well be three in many cases.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
• They were held hostage for hours, and the future of some remains in peril.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Blaney’s first win of the season took him from points peril into the next round.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
• That cannot be done at the peril of people who are presently alive.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
• But right now, pitchers give him a good pitch to hit at their peril.
  — Noah Trister, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
• What any of us write and say should not put writers in peril with each other.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 5 June 2018
• Those who lived through those times say such an oversight comes at our own peril.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• Lack of access to health care can put the lives of pregnant migrants in peril, too.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2022
• The Huskies lost to Montana last week but doubt them at your peril.
  — J. Brady McCollough Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
• By the never-distant peril of a noose over a sturdy branch.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• A year ago Stephens was injured and her career was in peril.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 June 2018
• The lemming’s instinct is to run with the crowd, even at its own peril — even to its death.
  — Nancy Tengler, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
• He who was right about so many perils of the human condition was wrong about that.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• Brands that ignore this warning light do so at their own peril.
  — Jon Chorley, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• All this teeming life that mankind may destroy at its peril.
  — Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2020
• That’s not because the crisis has put them in real peril.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Trump’s words at our own peril – and that of our democracy.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 4 Sep. 2022
• Those sorts of very strong, very troubled women in peril.
  — Sasha Urban, Variety, 27 Sep. 2022
• Hedges says now teams pitch around José Ramírez at their own peril.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
• Jobs that put workers close to other people might be most in peril.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2020
• Or if woman-in-peril movies do not, to this day, fill you with dread and make the walls close in.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
• Another loss for either team will place even a wild card spot in peril.
  — Geoffrey C. Arnold, OregonLive.com, 29 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024