How to Use take a risk in a Sentence

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  • Now is the time to take a risk and start putting yourself (and your ideas) out there.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Cher's always been ready to take a risk — even as a child.
    — Jack Irvin, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • She was drawn to the 1980s feel of it and decided to take a risk with the bold color.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 10 Mar. 2025
  • West Ham were the only top-flight club willing to take a risk on him.
    — Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Streamers will still take a risk on a mid-range budget.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • To tell a story about suicide is to take a risk—not with your own life but with the lives of others.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 16 May 2022
  • Many new customers will back the Eagles tonight, though a few may take a risk with Washington.
    — cleveland, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Don’t take a risk with your health or physical well-being.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • This is an actor who is willing to take a risk, play against type, and elevate the profound and the ridiculous.
    — Rachel Martin, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
  • People just have to take a risk and give us the opportunity.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In brief, Mansfield’s view of manliness is this: A manly man is willing to take a risk.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Don’t take a risk, let someone lead you astray or allow others to take advantage of you.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • It has been reported that Butler has no desire to go to Memphis so the Grizzlies would take a risk here.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • For those unprepared to take a risk on a windy day, Quant made trousers — which had eluded mainstream chic until that decade.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • That Pugh would take a risk and rock his exaggerated shoulder straps on Oscars night was a fun and quirky choice.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Cisneros, no longer paying $100 each night for a hotel room, decided to take a risk and follow his dream.
    — Angelina Hicks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2022
  • Don’t take a risk with your relationships, health or assets.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • For other artists, the songs on La Brega: El Álbum were an opportunity to take a risk.
    — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One way to gauge your risk tolerance is to take a risk tolerance questionnaire.
    — Kevin L. Matthews Ii, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • And with career pivots come some moments of anxiety, fear and a necessity to take a risk.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps clubs like Wolves, currently 19th in the Premier League, are less likely to take a risk on an academy product.
    — Elias Burke, The Athletic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • An entrepreneurial spirit sees a problem or gap in the market and is willing to take a risk on a creative, out-of-the-box solution.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Subscribers often buy tickets out of civic duty or take a risk, then leave when their expectations aren’t met.
    — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
  • In short, Infiniti must compete with BMW yet remain notably more affordable to encourage the buyer to take a risk on the brand.
    — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Typically, clients willing to take a risk on a startup agency will sign on for a 90-day campaign or a limited-term project.
    — Christopher Tompkins, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Therefore, if a bright and ambitious Chinese young person doesn’t like the prospects in their home country, there is a world of opportunity to prepare for and take a risk in the decades ahead.
    — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Listen to the pull, the call or that little voice that is telling you to do more, to take a risk and to do something that will make a difference in this world inside or outside of your main professional work.
    — John M. O'Connor, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Brokers and property owners also have to be willing to take a risk — perhaps more so than in Chon’s case, which relied on unique circumstances.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Weak Canadian climate policies meant they were not obligated to take a risk on the cleaner approach.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Sep. 2015
  • Advertisement Jay: Finding someone who’s willing to take a risk on new talent.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023

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