How to Use risky in a Sentence

risky

adjective

• Her plan is too risky.
• But landing on the moon is risky — and many have tried and failed in the past.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• The new treatments are risky enough that most are done in the hospital.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• That was risky, because lenders could call those loans in at any time.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But either move — buy big now or wait and try to ride things out — is a risky one.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• There are some ways to reduce your risk, but that doesn’t change the fact that writing checks is a risky habit.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• And risky coastal conditions may keep people away from the ocean.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• Tom Cruise likes to do all kinds of risky action scenes, but there are not many people like him.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
• But relying solely on using a lighter to start a fire while in the wild is risky.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• Lisa Nguyen’s pop-up doughnut shop, HeyDay, was a risky venture to embark on in the spring of 2020.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2023
• With cold weather and snow around the corner, roads will be risky and in need of plowing, so how does Louisville take care of them?
  — The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2024
• But mortgaging the future to acquire a starter can be risky.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 22 July 2023
• Such heavy reliance on a single type of math problem is risky.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• The riskiest hour of the entire study period was between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the evening of the eclipse, reports the National Post’s Sharon Kirkey.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• But, there are some seeds, pits, and raw foods that are surprisingly risky to consume.
  — Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 11 Aug. 2023
• The railroads say there isn’t any data to show one-person crews are riskier than two-person crews.
  — Stephen Groves and Josh Funk, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The reign of the octogenarians is a risky bet for a democracy.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
• An investment account would likely be too risky for this type of short-term goal.
  — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 11 Jan. 2024
• The process of sedating and capturing a rhino is complex and risky.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 12 June 2023
• However, this can be risky and may lead to higher car payments.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 20 July 2023
• Know your network boundary and risky products as well as LockBit do.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• Rather than try a risky onside kick, Folsom elected to kick the ball deep to try to get a stop on defense while using its timeouts.
  — Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• And now this night — another drone lost, another too risky to fly.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• Mortgage lenders seem to be aware that the smaller insurers are riskier, according to the study.
  — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
• Editors’ Picks Image To modern eyes, though, what is most striking is how risky so many of those hires seem now.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Seizing guns from dangerous guys under both the local red flag law and state program is risky for deputies.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The crisis has revealed just how risky those bets actually were.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• But a higher bond rating means that the city is viewed as a less risky investment and its borrowing cost, based on its risk, goes down, if the city were to borrow.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• But what begins as a risky fantasy soon becomes a deadly threat.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
• But the Earn program, the New York attorney general alleges, was far more risky than the marketing let on.
  — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024