How to Use risky in a Sentence

risky

adjective

• Her plan is too risky.
• But landing on the moon is risky — and many have tried and failed in the past.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• The next try was less risky on fourth-and-2 from the Chiefs 8 and the Eagles got the Chiefs to jump offside.
  — Josh Dubow, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
• Taking a new job can be risky in the event of a downturn.
  — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• The new treatments are risky enough that most are done in the hospital.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• Swimming in the ocean is far less risky than riding in a car.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022
• At first, the idea of gifting someone a scent may seem risky.
  — Lauren Dana, SELF, 25 Mar. 2022
• That was risky, because lenders could call those loans in at any time.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But either move — buy big now or wait and try to ride things out — is a risky one.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• In a way, staying close to the game is the safest route, even if the story itself is more risky.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
• And have no fear, Alexa’s cat Chowder gets caught up in a risky cat-and-mouse chase of its own.
  — Gabriela Silva, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
• The plan to go from awful to great is risky, too, even when the quarterback hits.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2022
• Voicing your opinion may feel risky as the moon and North Node align.
  — USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
• The walk from the embassy to the train station was risky, as armed fighters roamed the streets and an air raid siren went off.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
• There are some ways to reduce your risk, but that doesn’t change the fact that writing checks is a risky habit.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Most of these simple growth strategies proved to be very risky.
  — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Doing so, and going toe-to-toe with the status quo, is risky.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
• And risky coastal conditions may keep people away from the ocean.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• The first step is honestly just caring enough to try, and to try some things that might be risky.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
• Tom Cruise likes to do all kinds of risky action scenes, but there are not many people like him.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
• The volatile and often harsh Chicago climate is more risky for them.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2022
• Swimmers should keep an eye out for risky currents and high waves.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024
• Taking a running back in the first round can be risky, but is Robinson too good to pass up?
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
• These are crucial facts revealing that the Cavs don’t have to make a risky deal to win big right now.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2023
• But, the high state that the products cause can lead to risky situations.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• But relying solely on using a lighter to start a fire while in the wild is risky.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• Now with the pandemic, the move was looking riskier and risker.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
• Lisa Nguyen’s pop-up doughnut shop, HeyDay, was a risky venture to embark on in the spring of 2020.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2023
• For the same reasons, even using whole-body deodorants near the genitals (say, on your inner thigh) can be risky.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 14 July 2025
• The key to any retirement investment strategy is to diversify and not place too much in any one asset class, and to rebalance to less risky assets as one nears and enters retirement.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025