How to Use risk in a Sentence

risk

1 of 2 noun

• The trip didn't seem like much of a risk.
• To me, skydiving is not worth the risk.
• Smoking is a risk to your lungs.
• The degree of risk is minimal.
• I prefer not to expose my money to too much risk.
• I'm aware of the risks associated with this treatment.
• We feel that this product presents a significant risk to public health.
• Wearing a seatbelt greatly reduces the risk of injury or death in a car accident.
• There is a risk of liver damage with this medication.
• All investments have an element of risk.
• What about the risk of in-flight fires from rechargeable devices?
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Asked by reporters about prospects for a strike that had yet to be declared, Biden tried to play down the risk.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2023
• That can lower your risk and ride out the market’s inevitable ups and downs.
  — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 11 Oct. 2023
• Nowhere is the solar boom — and the adjustment risks — clearer than in the Netherlands.
  — William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• There has been a risk for severe weather in some part of the state every day since Sunday.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 15 June 2023
• In addition to the risk for severe storms, flash flooding will be a concern across parts of the Plains, as well as the Southeast.
  — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 12 June 2023
• Teams who fall behind risk losing their players to the zombie horde.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• However, her plan goes awry, putting citizens at risk and the pups in its path.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
• The highest risk of showers in greater Boston is likely between 5pm and 9 pm from west to east.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• What is causing the tornado risk A cold front pushing east is causing the storms.
  — Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2024
• Adults can be at risk in lakes or open water when impaired, swimming alone, or unaware of how to swim.
  — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• While carjackings are not the fault of the victim, knowing tips on how to prevent them can help put a person less at risk.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• But there is a risk on this path: the potential waning of the personal touch so vital to the specialty.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• And that love is not love without detail, without risk, without a touch of madness.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• However, our research shows that farm parents are highly aware of the risks.
  — Florence Becot, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• The move to label more Americans as having Alzheimer’s comes amid a decades-long decline in the risk of dementia.
  — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Tanks and troops have been awaiting orders at the Gaza border as Israel has stepped up airstrikes in order to reduce the risk to troops in the coming stages.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• The bottom line: Staying inside all day doesn’t fully shield you from the risks of UV exposure.
  — Cathryne Keller, SELF, 18 Jan. 2024
• There is also a risk for flash flooding at all locations.
  — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 20 July 2023
• The perception was that Netflix was willing to let artists take risks because all shows had a place at the streamer in its race for more subscribers.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023

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risk

2 of 2 verb

• The country risked a war.
• She risked her life to save her children.
• He risked breaking his neck.
• The company is risking the loss of millions of dollars.
• It's not wise to risk traveling so soon after surgery.
• He risked all his money on starting his own business.
• I'm not willing to risk getting lost. I'm going to buy a map.
• She's risking being considered too sentimental.
• None of us are suited to sending a child to risk his life.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2024
• And so, do those willing to risk their lives to support her.
  — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Five days is not a lot of time, so don't dwell and risk your faves running out of stock.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 19 Oct. 2023
• Jude has no choice but to risk her life in order to save her sisters as well as the whole of Faerie.
  — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 6 July 2023
• Could not risk having the daughter tell the husband, and how annoyed the husband would be, or worse.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• Late last year, U.S. diplomats warned that the shipping attacks risked scuttling the process.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• Gulf states have little incentive to risk the wrath of their publics.
  — Alexandra Stark, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
• Why would the people trusted to take care of these bodies risk their careers?
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
• The second season risks a great deal by demolishing the cramped kitchen of the Beef, where much of the series was set.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Starbucks says the union’s actions risked putting employees in harm’s way.
  — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
• Their son was in a breech position and the doctor didn’t want to risk complications.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• Their son was in a breech position, and the doctor didn’t want to risk complications.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023
• There was no railing on the roof, so anyone who stood too close to the edge risked making a bigger headline, on First Avenue.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Yet the United States risks being left on the sidelines absent action from the commission.
  — Maxine Joselow, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• But the milestone also risks sounding the death knell for certain Bitcoin miners.
  — David Pan, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• The crowd was so dense and rowdy that at one point, farmers and police officers appeared to risk being crushed.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• So lawmakers will need to get to work, or risk a partial shutdown on their hands in January.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• This conviction drove us to risk our careers and work long hours to realize our vision.
  — Otto Berkes, Fortune, 16 June 2023
• And those people have been the target of the e-mail onslaught in recent days — a bombardment, fund-raisers say, that could risk turning them off.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• This would serve the same purpose of providing a moral compass without risking the career of the friend’s nanny.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• The air currents churned up by the whirling blades risked weakening the only cable preventing the cable car from crashing to the bottom of the river canyon.
  — Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Many grocery clerks, nurses, meat-packers, and others were now earning less than the laid off—and risking their health and lives for the privilege.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024