jeopardizing

Example Sentences

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They developed consummate skill in allowing their pupils as much of history, science and philosophy as they could imbibe without jeoparding their faith.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Although greatly jeoparding my reputation for taste, I will utter it.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

They knew that she was not the princess; and here, calmly and negligently, she was jeoparding their liberty as well as her own.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison

In other words, he had a spirit for running in debt, and never shrunk from jeoparding property that, in truth, belonged to his creditors.

From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore