peril

The scale of the peril is hard to comprehend and harder to articulate; they’re more curious to explore the crisis than find a fix.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

"Wildfire risk has so far accounted for only a relatively small share of insured losses in Europe. Yet it is the fastest-growing weather peril globally," the company said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

GM and the broader U.S. industry still face potential peril.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Hedonists care too much about immediate pleasure, thrill-seekers enjoy a deadline at their own peril and zigzaggers switch too often between tasks.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

I was now in peril, and if I had been seen to enter the Embassy, in instant peril.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Even so, as he described to me in his office, perils remain, especially for Muslim candidates.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The perils of leaving a five-star review on a wing and a prayer.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

What could they teach us about the power and perils of hero worship in a community that has produced too few figures of Chávez’s stature?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

“ProPublica’s reporting shows the perils of not having this law,” Rubin said.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

He set it with traps, and tricks, and hidden perils.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

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

He stood in the gate of the temple he had periled his life to save, And the face of the unknown hero was the sable face of a slave!

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

A few devoted friends periled their own lives by gaining occasional access to her.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

But her periling her life to save him from an unjust accusation, and her desire to shield her brother's pride from ridicule, is altogether praiseworthy and extraordinary.

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Bret Harte

And you, sir, a citizen of high standing and repute, were detected in the act of transferring many of these important papers to a spy, thus periling the safety of the nation.

From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

No one could then manifest any sympathy with the proscribed without periling life.

From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

A vague presentiment whispered within me that the happiness of my whole life was at stake,—perhaps perilled for ever.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

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

Beyond this, and with reference to any possibility of saving the perilled man, he was probably quite as much in the dark as any of the others.

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

Wasn't it for you that I did all this? and—God, forgive me!—maybe it 's my soul that I 've perilled to leave you a rich man.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever

“If I did unwisely in advising resistance, and perilling your lives as well as my own, I now ask your forgiveness; on my own account I do not regret it.”

From The Island Home by Dalziel

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

So he spoke solemnly to him, warning him against perilling his future by relapsing into his old courses in Charleston.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

Ten of these were serving in the Union army perilling their lives to maintain that national fabric, which their illustrious ancestor had done so much to establish.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

"Ay, but methinks the Soldan might regard it as too unequal a mode of perilling the chance of a royal bride and the event of a great war," said the Emir.

From The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott