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.
• That would allow states to keep him off the ballot and imperil his campaign.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Pundits on the right claim this is wokeism run amok and will imperil West Hollywood residents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• If her younger son is replaced as heir to Driftmark, then her older son, Jace, would be on shakier ground as heir to the Iron Throne, which would imperil her own claim as well.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• In other words, Xi’s secrecy could imperil his ambitions for China and its role in the world.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
• But in neighborhoods that can quickly turn from ghost towns to active war zones, even the mile-long trip between the hospital and his home can imperil his life.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• And a world with a million tons of metal controlled by private actors in low-Earth orbit is one that imperils Earth below.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• Elsewhere in the country, scorching heat in most of Texas is imperiling both grass hay growth and the survival of beef cattle, according to experts.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• What’s unique about the back-and-forth, though, is just how quickly a contentious political dispute has imperiled the project by nearly nipping it in the bud.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Whether the sale of the nation’s third-largest steel producer to a Japanese buyer imperils any of those goals remains to be determined.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Both have pointed to decisions and the behavior of the justices as signs of a democracy being imperiled.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Her thinking is clear: If there’s a recipe for fitting in, deviating from it is imperiling it.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• If the drug is not handled correctly, some experts worry, more people could be injured and the drug itself could be imperiled.
  — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Us: Contribution caps haven’t been raised in 40 years, imperiling our pension and health plans.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 July 2023
• The larger risk is that fractiousness could imperil some basic functions of government in the coming year.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2023
• Many of their parishioners, these pastors said, are so dismayed by the president’s posture toward the war that their support for his re-election bid could be imperiled.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• To read straight through them would ruin your sleep, imperil your relationships, and entail trading your life for Byron’s.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• These are two misunderstood creatures that are imperiled in many places.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• Martian ice deposits under the Medusae Fossae Formation are up to two miles thick, and young thrust faults on the moon may imperil human and robot explorers.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Marine scientists have warned that projects along the New England coast could imperil endangered North Atlantic right whales.
  — Jennifer A Dlouhy, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
• The venue’s future is imperiled, however, as increasing land movement on the heels of a deluge of rain closed the chapel indefinitely.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• But the settlement was imperiled within weeks, the whistleblowers alleged, because the agency intended to slow-walk the funding.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• But indulging in some pleasure doesn’t necessarily imperil the key tax prize of bonus depreciation: As long as, over the course of a year, the jet is used over 50% of the time for business, the owner gets to keep that perk.
  — Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2023
• Degradation of pastures and forests imperils the livelihoods of farmers.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Climate Change: The war between Israel and Hamas in the middle of an energy-rich region could imperil action against global warming.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024