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• With an 80% loss rate for each year’s chicks, the hoiho’s existence is in peril.2018 March 12, Murdo MacLeod, The Guardian. From the entry hoiho
• To understand the perils of underestimating Russia, you don't have to go back that far.December 12 2016, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune. From the entry rewind
• Atmospheric Southern gothic, and a “psycho-biddy” (old people in peril) classic.2011, Paul Simpson, Movie Lists: 397 Ways to Pick a DVD, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry psycho-biddy
• Marketing is inherently mysterious, and we forget this at our peril.2005, Stephen Brown, Wizard!: Harry Potter’s Brand Magic (Great Brand Stories), Cyan Books, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry Potteresque
• "The yellow peril is lurking, and expanding its grip on the UK."2002 August 26, Helen Carter, “Livestock at risk as weed thrives”, in The Guardian. From the entry equinologist
• He represents the privileged viewpoint of the artist critic, also its limitations and perils.1991, Girdhari Lal Chaturvedi, Re-visiting Śākuntalam, page 113. From the entry evocationism
• Richard Greenberg's witty, sometimes insightful look at the perils of yuppiedom is now at Broadway's Golden Theatre.1989 January 16, Ruth Gilbert, “Hot Line: The tops in town this week”, in New York Magazine, page 25. From the entry yuppiedom
• We face new perils: TV-Myopia, mistaking the image in our living room for the reality out there.1985 October 29, Daniel Joseph Boorstin, “Don Quixote in the Age of Television” (speech), quoted in 1989, The Republic of Letters…. From the entry fuzzy over
• Farhūd denotes a breakdown of law and order in which life and property are in peril.[1966, Hayyim J. Cohen, “The Anti‐Jewish Farhūd in Baghdad, 1941”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 3, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 2–17. From the entry Farhud
• With such an exchange of knowledge all perils will pass, and a satisfactory modus vivendi be established.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry modus vivendi
• Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron.2015, Peter N. Milligan, Bulls Before Breakfast, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry balatron
• Tory said he was worried that "a perfect storm" of economic factors could put tourist operators and their communities in peril.2008 June 30, Jim Coyle, “Stormy weather for tourism season”, in Toronto Star, page AA8. From the entry perfect storm
• In these YouTubian times, there's a certain peril in conducting a multi-city stand-up comedy tour: Punch lines precede their progenitor.2008 April 21, Teresa Wiltz, “Sharp Edge, Lethal Aim: Chris Rock Brings the Pain to D.C.”, in The Washington Post. From the entry YouTubian
• If you’re not in business yet, but plan to launch an Internet business, you’ll ignore the real world at your peril.2001, Peter Kent, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet, page 243. From the entry real world
• These automobiles will be covered for the three excluded perils, if loss is caused by the lessee or the rentee.1989, Harry F. Brooks, Donald S. Malecki, Insuring the Lease Exposure, Cincinnati, OH: National Underwriter Co., →ISBN, page 116. From the entry lessee
• A woman steps into this man's sphere at her peril.1985, James Mallahan Cain, Roy Hoopes, Michael Hinden, 60 Years of Journalism, page 40. From the entry henpeck
• Paroemiology, or the study and collection of proverbs, is a morass into which one enters at one's peril.1978, David Kunzle, “World Upside Down: The Iconography of a European Broadsheet Type”, in Barbara A. Babcock, editor, The Reversible…. From the entry paroemiology
• Elly to release their boys from peril.1952 April 13, William McDonald, “Today ‘Barnes Boys’ Are Legion—Positivism Of Mister Elly Helped Educator Build One Of South’s Finest…. From the entry unexcused
• More German peril would follow as Joshua Kimmich swung in a cross for Havertz, whose well-placed header was majestically saved by Yahia Fofana.2026 June 20, Leander Schaerlaeckens, “Deniz Undav’s double earns Germany dramatic late win against Côte d’Ivoire”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry cross
• Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as “tribal group-thinking.”2020 February 28, George Johnson, “Freeman Dyson, Math Genius Turned Technological Visionary, Dies at 96”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry iconoclast
• What links the kids in most of these games is their relative ordinariness, forcing us to face their perils without special powers.2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian. From the entry ordinariness
• The perils of my blanking out were brought home to me particularly harshly one night when we were at the playpark quite late, again.2015, Amy Fusselman, Savage Park, page 67. From the entry playpark
• Commonhood has its perils, you know.2012, Max Lucado, Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust. From the entry commonhood
• President Pervez Musharraf is undoubtedly sincere in his belief that he, and he alone, can save Pakistan from the twin perils of terrorism and anarchy.2008 January 29, The Guardian. From the entry and
• This world has the perils as well as the pleasure that you experience in real life or IRL as MUD players call it.1995 September 22, Benjamin Woolley, 22 minutes from the start, in The Net, season 2, episode 2. From the entry irl
• Nevertheless, the art of fighting on foot was an obligatory part of military education which even a charioted knight could ignore at his own peril.1989, Sarva Daman Singh, Ancient Indian Warfare, page 18. From the entry charioted
• A high price to one so afflicted is a temptation and peril; it enhoneys and allures, inflames him with renewed madness for possession.1950, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, Illinois, published 2001, page 551. From the entry enhoney
• We see the impression that the perils of these unknown seas made on Minoan art in a clay seal impression that comes from Knossos.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 14. From the entry black
• But timid, feverish, locoed people, whose jedgment is bad an' who's prone to feel themse'fs in peril; they're the kind who kills.1902, Alfred Lewis, Wolfville Nights. From the entry jedgment
• The same is true in the case of the list of the survived disciples: Lysis and Archippus are indeed known to escape the peril (Aristoxenus apud Iamb.2018 March 11, Eugene Afonasin, Anna Afonasina, “Pythagoras Traveling East: An Image of a Sage in Late Antiquity”, in Archai: On the…. From the entry Cylonian
• It noted that “a ship′s master should not be discouraged from taking timely action to avert a disaster,” and need not be in actual peril to claim general average.2008, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle, International Business Law and Its…. From the entry average
• Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy.2008 May 18, Clark Hoyt, “Journalism From the Bottom of the Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jun 2011. From the entry name names
• The horror-stricken warnings of opera purists about the perils of singing roles too large for one’s voice may make nonaficionados only more eager to stir things up.2007 May 6, Anne Midgette, “Home in the Range? Who Can Sing What”, in New York Times. From the entry nonaficionado
• These deeply significant motifs of the perils, obstacles, and good fortunes of the way, we shall find inflected through the following pages in a hundred forms.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 22. From the entry good fortune

Meaning of peril

1. noun A situation of serious and immediate danger.
2. noun Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
3. noun An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.

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How do you use peril in a sentence?

Peril is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Your life is in peril.”

What is a short sentence with peril?

“Your life is in peril.”

What does peril mean?

Peril means a situation of serious and immediate danger.