How to Use risky in a Sentence

risky

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• 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 next try was less risky on fourth-and-2 from the Chiefs 8 and the Eagles got the Chiefs to jump offside.
  — Josh Dubow, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
• 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
• And have no fear, Alexa’s cat Chowder gets caught up in a risky cat-and-mouse chase of its own.
  — Gabriela Silva, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
• Voicing your opinion may feel risky as the moon and North Node align.
  — USA TODAY, 5 May 2024
• 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
• Doing so, and going toe-to-toe with the status quo, is risky.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
• And risky coastal conditions may keep people away from the ocean.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• The first step is honestly just caring enough to try, and to try some things that might be risky.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Swimmers should keep an eye out for risky currents and high waves.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024
• Taking a running back in the first round can be risky, but is Robinson too good to pass up?
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
• These are crucial facts revealing that the Cavs don’t have to make a risky deal to win big right now.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2023
• But, the high state that the products cause can lead to risky situations.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Feb. 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
• Now with the pandemic, the move was looking riskier and risker.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
• Lisa Nguyen’s pop-up doughnut shop, HeyDay, was a risky venture to embark on in the spring of 2020.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2023
• This is her land, but planting anything here would be risky.
  — Eyder Peralta, NPR, 18 Apr. 2024
• Writing felt fraught, risky even, like touching a hot stove.
  — Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
• The board considered giving Musk a seat too risky, Dorsey’s texts say.
  — Time, 30 Sep. 2022
• Man coverage can be risky when play isn’t elite, and against the Patriots, the Browns were burned by it.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The six-week test flight is risky and could be cut short if something fails, NASA officials warn.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2022
• Such heavy reliance on a single type of math problem is risky.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• To solve the team’s water shortage, Kelce proposes the risky idea of digging a well.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
• However, his absence is not the only one at Sepang; injuries seem to be a risky trend lately in the testing period.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025