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.
  • And frankly, imperil the party's prospects in the midterms.
    — Fox News, 26 July 2018
  • With a 50-50 split in the Senate, Manchin's refusal to sign could imperil the act.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 June 2021
  • If that imperils his clearance, there's a process for all of that.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • If any of the three owners vote against moving ahead, the project would be imperiled.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • That could imperil gun control laws that are on the books across the country, Brown said.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
  • But the abilities bring out the darker sides of some, imperiling the world as the kids know it.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2024
  • But this is the kind of activity the city now says has been imperiled.
    — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
  • That would allow states to keep him off the ballot and imperil his campaign.
    — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • How far would either of these clubs go to imperil a 2022 season?
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
  • If the Supreme Court allows the state to keep its ban in place, that could imperil everyone’s access to health care.
    — Orion Rummler, Them, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The state has long claimed the wolf’s return to its native range in Utah would imperil the state’s livestock industry.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Herhold said, which could be imperiled if the board directors don’t stick to the fare hike program.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2019
  • Bats eat insect pests and lower the use of pesticides, yet many of them are imperiled.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Such a judicial arms race, the justice said, could undercut public faith in the court and imperil the rule of law.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • This has lowered the water table and could imperil some of the newfound obscure species that live there.
    — Ralf Britz, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Democrats have a slim majority in the House, and just a few defections could imperil a tax bill.
    — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • 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
  • At scale, those losses could imperil the way the mortgage-finance system works.
    — R.a. Schuetz, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The actual well-being of these places is imperiled in part by our refusal to see them clearly.
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • 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
  • In other words, all of the customary issues that could imperil a lot of politicians don’t seem to affect Trump.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2018
  • But the depth of the shock from the novel coronavirus, which has triggered a deep recession and imperiled millions of jobs, has left many firms with no choice.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The country was in crisis, the economy imperiled; somehow the country and the economy had become one and the same.
    — Ben Fountain, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Roads were closed and more than two dozen homes, businesses, and other structures were imperiled.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
  • If the committee can’t save at least that much, the entire effort could be imperiled because of the special process Congress is using to avoid a Senate filibuster.
    — Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Unfortunately, that goal seems as imperiled now as ever.
    — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025

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