peril

This moment of peril illustrates the layers making up the modern battlefield.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Fashion giants on both sides of the Atlantic are underestimating the Chinese shopper at their own peril.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

McKinley stages a few bullet-sweating sequences of peril, including a particularly brutal transport of gold bars across a crumbling rope bridge and an underwater accident exacerbated by floating logs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

In places like Minneapolis and Des Moines, Iowa, insurers are factoring in hail and severe convective storms, ICE added, which is a “a peril that is frequently overlooked but is now driving double-digit increases.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Plus, government equity purchases, AI-driven inflation and the perils of Treasury’s short-term borrowing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Wilshere, who is aiming to guide Luton to promotion to the Championship this season, felt one of his managerial strengths was being able to warn his young players of the perils of professional football.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

She was also, in her own unique way, a dedicated revolutionary, rarely letting an opportunity pass to use her appearance to point out the perils and absurdity of stereotyping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Whether Franklin Roosevelt consciously led the U.S. to war, or hoped to keep the U.S. out by a daring support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

We all realize that we live in periled times, and our nation must be prepared to defend itself at a moment's notice.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night last week an old dog periled the Earl's new job.

From Time Magazine Archive

In so doing he periled his life, as he had placed his name upon the Declaration of Independence—then sneeringly called the death warrant of the signers by the Tories and their coadjutors—the British.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson

"Uncounted gold shall be given to the man whose brave right hand, For the love of the periled city, plucks down yon burning brand!"

From Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" by Various

Justice Department attorneys respond that fears about Snepp's being a loose cannon periling the First Amendment rights of all sorts of people are greatly exaggerated.

From Time Magazine Archive

What!—already faint-hearted!—A miracle of beauty such as Darville described is well worth periling one's neck to gaze upon.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

He reconnoitred every available point, searched every corner of possible danger, and as the time passed he began to rage with impatience against Dick, whose delay was now periling the success of the enterprise.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

The case of the colored man Davis, who made such a bold stroke to regain his liberty, by periling his life on board the steamer Keystone State, has excited very general attention.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

When I found myself a prisoner, I thought I would try this door before periling the sleep of a patient in the small-pox.

From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage.

From Time Magazine Archive

We must not condemn the popular scrupulousness of 1789 as puerile and foolish, until we too have perilled life and fortune in the cause of liberty and equality.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

Never before did so much seem to have been won, because never before did so much seem to have been perilled.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

I could not possibly think of using your eyes, precious and perilled as they are, instead of my own.

From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

I had perilled my life for it, and few men do as much for an opinion; for this reason I resolved, come what would, to maintain my ground, and hold fast to my conviction.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever

We saw him t’other night perilling his life to stop the poor crazy prentices, and save the foreigners. 

From The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte Mary Yonge

I thought I was perilling my head by coming here, and you tell me I have saved it.

From Vera or, The Nihilists by Oscar Wilde

She felt extreme reluctance in perilling her home.

From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

And I," said William with the Long Sword, Earl of Salisbury, "protest in my turn against my royal brother perilling his life, which is the property of the people of England, in such a cause.

From The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

She was perilling her own in order to accompany and assist his expedition.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett