Perils can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| peril - put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | ||
| peril - pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" | ||
Noun |
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| peril - a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" | ||
| peril - a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing" | ||
| peril - a state of danger involving risk |
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| 1. | noun | In this forest, at every step, we may face the most terrible perils that you can ever imagine. So let's go ahead. | |
| 2. | noun | A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say it is ignoring the perils of climate change. | |
| 3. | noun | "One alone, / Celaeno, sings of famine foul and dread, / a nameless prodigy, a plague unknown. / What perils first to shun? what path to tread, / to win deliverance from such toils?" | |
| 4. | noun | Father Zachary urged these perils to the Baron with all the force of monkish rhetoric. | |
| 5. | noun | The question must be put as directly as possible: what manner of maniac would undertake a path so fraught with peril and potential economic catastrophe? | |
| 6. | noun | Many wild animals are in peril of losing their lives. | |
| 7. | noun | They faced the peril of falling rocks. | |
| 8. | noun | For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. | |
| 9. | noun | And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. | |
| 10. | noun | Generations of Americans were taught to fear--miscegenation, "the yellow peril," Italians, communism. | |
| 11. | noun | Unless a nation's existence is in peril, war is murder. | |
| 12. | noun | The bath which Chloe had taken was apparently more fraught with peril than the sea from which he had escaped. | |
| 13. | noun | Sami realized the peril he was in. | |
| 14. | noun | Uprose the image of my father dear, / as there I see the monarch, bathed in blood, / like him in prowess and in age his peer. / Uprose Creusa, desolate and drear, / Iulus' peril, and a plundered home. | |
| 15. | noun | On the evening of the day when the Lord Keeper and his daughter were saved from such imminent peril, two strangers were seated in the most private apartment of a small obscure inn, or rather alehouse, called the Tod's Den, about three or four miles from the Castle of Ravenswood. |
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| In this forest, at every step, we may face the most terrible perils that you can ever imagine. So let's go ahead. | |
| A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say it is ignoring the perils of climate change. | |
| "One alone, / Celaeno, sings of famine foul and dread, / a nameless prodigy, a plague unknown. / What perils first to shun? what path to tread, / to win deliverance from such toils?" | |
| Father Zachary urged these perils to the Baron with all the force of monkish rhetoric. | |
| The question must be put as directly as possible: what manner of maniac would undertake a path so fraught with peril and potential economic catastrophe? |
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| Many wild animals are in peril of losing their lives. | |
| They faced the peril of falling rocks. | |
| For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. | |
| And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. | |
| Generations of Americans were taught to fear--miscegenation, "the yellow peril," Italians, communism. | |
| Unless a nation's existence is in peril, war is murder. | |
| The bath which Chloe had taken was apparently more fraught with peril than the sea from which he had escaped. | |
| Sami realized the peril he was in. | |
| Uprose the image of my father dear, / as there I see the monarch, bathed in blood, / like him in prowess and in age his peer. / Uprose Creusa, desolate and drear, / Iulus' peril, and a plundered home. | |
| On the evening of the day when the Lord Keeper and his daughter were saved from such imminent peril, two strangers were seated in the most private apartment of a small obscure inn, or rather alehouse, called the Tod's Den, about three or four miles from the Castle of Ravenswood. | |