How to Use risky business in a Sentence

risky business

noun

• Tom Cruise engaged in a little risky business to close out the 2024 Paris Olympics.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
• But using your phone past its end of life is risky business.
  — Fox News, 16 Oct. 2023
• Some say making them the ‘be-all, end-all’ of shows’ survival is risky business.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• Plumbing the marketplace in one object is risky business, but the Tale of the Tall Clock is telling.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• Well, as the Doctor knows all too well, traveling back in time can be a risky business.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• War is a risky business, with potentially very high costs.
  — Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2020
• So creating a law to execute how to define AI is a risky business.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 1 June 2023
• Hunting a bedding area right now is risky business indeed.
  — Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2019
• And while allowing kids to have free reign can be risky business, Jessi assures it's been more helpful than harmful.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
• And gambling on a second or third round rookie to become an immediate starter is risky business.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
• Read full article Using one’s business as a platform to stake claims on contentious social issues is risky business.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• Risky Business Management science indicates that these changes are a very risky business.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
• Some might find that to be risky business, considering that the last time Flick rested players against this opposition, the Catalans were soundly beaten 4-2 in El Sadar.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• Marijan Murat / dpa via AP Appealing a score is a risky business, which often results in an even lower score than before.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• And as our heroes attempt to balance the books on this very risky business venture, the series is running its own kind of cost-benefit analysis about the arts — culinary or otherwise.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• What started three years ago as a crackdown on risky business behavior by home builders, and then an ensuing housing slowdown, has spiraled rapidly this month.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• All of this is risky business for those who operate buildings that are 80 to 100 years old.
  — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
• Posting about the Minnesota tragedies was risky business for a business.
  — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
• Shooting on glaciers is a risky business, but Dosa and her team had glacial guides who knew when to pull them out for weather.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
• The only way to neutralize the threat of these mines is to remove them, which is a seriously risky business.
  — NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
• Getting in between Southerners and their queso could be called risky business.
  — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
• Coup and punishments Plotting a coup is risky business.
  — Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025