How to Use imperil in a Sentence

imperil

verb
  • 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
  • What’s more, the Trump-Kim meeting is imperiled by a lack of planning.
    — Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • But this is the kind of activity the city now says has been imperiled.
    — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But tensions over Chevron appeared to imperil the future of the flights.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • That same sort of logic could have imperiled a Comcast-Fox deal.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The Hoosiers were more imperiled a week later against Iowa, protecting a four-point lead.
    — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • But the Raccoon River is imperiled, and a bioreactor here and a wetland there is just a drop in the bucket.
    — National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Such a judicial arms race, the justice said, could undercut public faith in the court and imperil the rule of law.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 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
  • Orwell has become a touchstone for those who see the pursuit of truth as imperiled.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • 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
  • This could have, in turn, imperiled a lot of expensive assets.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
  • There are many concerns about how a plane from a foreign government could imperil both the president and national security if it is not properly inspected and rebuilt.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 30 May 2025
  • The hero is a stand-in, paradoxically, for both AI fanboys and those underappreciated tech workers whose jobs are imperiled by the technology.
    — Joshua Hunt, Vulture, 5 June 2025

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