perils
Example Sentences
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Yet even for an industry so fraught with perils and pitfalls, Chen, the miner who previously worked at Liushenyu, suggests there will always be desperate people willing to take their chances in the mines.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
The “Histories” of Herodotus, likely composed in the mid-fifth-century B.C., recounted the Persian defeat as a paradigm of the perils of reckless imperialism.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
On the one hand, I understand the perils of lifestyle creep.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Watch the cautionary tale about the perils of the transfer portal turn into a fairy-tale comeback.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Climbing was a magnificent activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
