How to Use imperil in a Sentence

imperil

verb
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  • The toxic fumes imperiled the lives of the trapped miners.
  • The financial health of the company was imperiled by a string of bad investments.
  • How far would either of these clubs go to imperil a 2022 season?
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The country could delay its exit from coal, but that would imperil its goals for sharply reducing carbon emissions.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Alexander warned Medel that approving the injunction would imperil this year’s fair, which is 10 weeks away.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Still, some critics say even the corporate activism with the best intentions can imperil democracy.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Asking artists to disavow Mr. Putin’s war in order to carry on creatively can imperil their safety.
    — Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In Vermont, the plant’s state rank has now been updated from possibly extinct and missing to very rare and critically imperiled.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • At a court hearing last week Moot had deflected concerns from lawyers for the district that issuing an injunction would not leave the district time to have a midway and would imperil the fair.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Seldom does a segment pass without some reference to the myriad ways human civilization has grown to imperil the environments on display.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
  • That would allow states to keep him off the ballot and imperil his campaign.
    — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • So far, the rate hikes appear to have slowed but not imperiled the nation's economic growth.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As with many sensitive habitats around the world, Doñana is imperiled.
    — Catherine Buni, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Now, staggering debt and a severe shortage of big movies to show in the months ahead imperil multiplex chains once again.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2022
  • At that point, Digihost could have a tough time convincing the state that its new crypto mine wouldn’t imperil climate goals.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 17 Jan. 2023
  • This option, however, would leave FERC in the dark about the details of what cultural resources the project would imperil.
    — B. “toastie” Oaster, ProPublica, 26 June 2024
  • Pundits on the right claim this is wokeism run amok and will imperil West Hollywood residents.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • If her younger son is replaced as heir to Driftmark, then her older son, Jace, would be on shakier ground as heir to the Iron Throne, which would imperil her own claim as well.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In other words, Xi’s secrecy could imperil his ambitions for China and its role in the world.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But in neighborhoods that can quickly turn from ghost towns to active war zones, even the mile-long trip between the hospital and his home can imperil his life.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The Russian attack in the north raised concerns in Ukraine and among its Western allies that a breakthrough could imperil Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.
    — Finbarr O’Reilly Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 13 June 2024
  • Their egregious actions are a clear violation of state statutes that imperiled the safety of their customers and others on the road.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2024
  • And the plan could imperil Mr. Johnson’s speakership, which is teetering under a threat to oust him.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The woodrats’ food sources have also taken a hit, such as chestnut trees destroyed by chestnut blight and acorn-producing oak trees imperiled by the spongy moth.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
  • Kidney function is also known to be harmed in cases of severe acute Covid, but may also be imperiled in those with long Covid, the report says.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 June 2024
  • And a world with a million tons of metal controlled by private actors in low-Earth orbit is one that imperils Earth below.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Elsewhere in the country, scorching heat in most of Texas is imperiling both grass hay growth and the survival of beef cattle, according to experts.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • What’s unique about the back-and-forth, though, is just how quickly a contentious political dispute has imperiled the project by nearly nipping it in the bud.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Whether the sale of the nation’s third-largest steel producer to a Japanese buyer imperils any of those goals remains to be determined.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But today, the climate crisis imperils the very symbols of many parks, leaving them facing a future in which their names could be cruel ironies.
    — CBS News, 15 May 2024

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