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.
• 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
• 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
• But this is the kind of activity the city now says has been imperiled.
  — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• At scale, those losses could imperil the way the mortgage-finance system works.
  — R.a. Schuetz, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2020
• 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
• But the depth of the shock from the novel coronavirus, which has triggered a deep recession and imperiled millions of jobs, has left many firms with no choice.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 1 Apr. 2020
• The country was in crisis, the economy imperiled; somehow the country and the economy had become one and the same.
  — Ben Fountain, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Roads were closed and more than two dozen homes, businesses, and other structures were imperiled.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
• This option, however, would leave FERC in the dark about the details of what cultural resources the project would imperil.
  — B. “toastie” Oaster, ProPublica, 26 June 2024
• The bill imperiled many of these good-governance measures.
  — Scott Singer, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
• 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
• That, in turn, could imperil the ruling Kim family's grip on power.
  — Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• 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
• Their opposition is threatening to not only turn the U.S. into a technological backwater, but also to imperil our country’s status as the world’s only superpower.
  — Laura Shin, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024