How to Use imperil in a Sentence

imperil

verb

• The toxic fumes imperiled the lives of the trapped miners.
• The financial health of the company was imperiled by a string of bad investments.
• And frankly, imperil the party's prospects in the midterms.
  — Fox News, 26 July 2018
• With a 50-50 split in the Senate, Manchin's refusal to sign could imperil the act.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 June 2021
• If that imperils his clearance, there's a process for all of that.
  — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• If any of the three owners vote against moving ahead, the project would be imperiled.
  — Russell Gold, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• That could imperil gun control laws that are on the books across the country, Brown said.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
• But the abilities bring out the darker sides of some, imperiling the world as the kids know it.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2024
• What’s more, the Trump-Kim meeting is imperiled by a lack of planning.
  — Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
• But this is the kind of activity the city now says has been imperiled.
  — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
• But tensions over Chevron appeared to imperil the future of the flights.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
• That would allow states to keep him off the ballot and imperil his campaign.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
• How far would either of these clubs go to imperil a 2022 season?
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
• If the Supreme Court allows the state to keep its ban in place, that could imperil everyone’s access to health care.
  — Orion Rummler, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
• That same sort of logic could have imperiled a Comcast-Fox deal.
  — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
• The Hoosiers were more imperiled a week later against Iowa, protecting a four-point lead.
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2017
• The state has long claimed the wolf’s return to its native range in Utah would imperil the state’s livestock industry.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Herhold said, which could be imperiled if the board directors don’t stick to the fare hike program.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2019
• But the Raccoon River is imperiled, and a bioreactor here and a wetland there is just a drop in the bucket.
  — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
• Bats eat insect pests and lower the use of pesticides, yet many of them are imperiled.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 9 Oct. 2024
• Such a judicial arms race, the justice said, could undercut public faith in the court and imperil the rule of law.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Such a judicial arms race, the justice said, could undercut public faith in the court and imperil the rule of law.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• This has lowered the water table and could imperil some of the newfound obscure species that live there.
  — Ralf Britz, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2020
• Orwell has become a touchstone for those who see the pursuit of truth as imperiled.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2018
• Democrats have a slim majority in the House, and just a few defections could imperil a tax bill.
  — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• So far, the rate hikes appear to have slowed but not imperiled the nation's economic growth.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• As with many sensitive habitats around the world, Doñana is imperiled.
  — Catherine Buni, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2023
• This could have, in turn, imperiled a lot of expensive assets.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
• To which some will respond that the rising national debt imperils the rosy scenario described above.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
• And that imperils small business owners who rely on local custom, face-to-face relationships to ensure predictable trade and, above all, customer loyalty in the age of the big-box store.
  — Antoinette Burton, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025