Examples of imperil in a Sentence

The toxic fumes imperiled the lives of the trapped miners. The financial health of the company was imperiled by a string of bad investments. a list of imperiled species

Recent Examples on the Web The country could delay its exit from coal, but that would imperil its goals for sharply reducing carbon emissions. — Alec Macgillis, ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2022 Catastrophic dieback would imperil millions of people who rely on the ecosystem for food; 70 percent of the rain that falls in northern Argentina, a South American breadbasket, comes from Amazonian trees. — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022 The companies who owned the plants publicly insisted that shuttering plants would spark a meat shortage and imperil the country’s food supply. — Gabriel N. Rosenberg, The New Republic, 27 Dec. 2021 At a court hearing last week Moot had deflected concerns from lawyers for the district that issuing an injunction would not leave the district time to have a midway and would imperil the fair. — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022 How far would either of these clubs go to imperil a 2022 season? — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022 More than half of the rainforest could be converted into savanna in a matter of decades — a transition that would imperil biodiversity, shift regional weather patterns and dramatically accelerate climate change. — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022 If the government cannot reach an agreement, HBTSS could be limited to 2021 spending levels for the project: $130 million, a sum that would likely imperil the project’s schedule. — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2022 The court’s conservative majority has targeted the EPA with a tradition-smashing move that could imperil the administrative state. — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2021 See More

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