Sentence examples for perilous gamble from inspiring English sources

Soon after, Luckey dropped out of college to work full time on creating a virtual-reality headset, a project that, he said, had become an "obsession" — the kind of perilous gamble needed to set up any good plot.

Soon after, Luckey dropped out of college to work full time on creating a virtual-reality headset, a project that, he said, had become an "obsession"—the kind of perilous gamble needed to set up any good plot.

It's been a couple of weeks now since Fassel stopped trying to convince everyone he was acting in character when he took the bold, perilous gamble of guaranteeing a berth in the playoffs for the Giants.

At this sprawling, rundown research complex where Soviet scientists once secretly worked to turn plague, tularemia, glanders and anthrax into weapons, the Clinton administration is taking what many consider a perilous gamble.

When you tell your work colleague that he dresses like an Internet billionaire, or inform your overextended sister that her datebook is like a Medium Hadron Collider, or ask costumed revelers at a Gatsby party if they've come as the car crash, you are taking a perilous gamble in the netherworlds of inference and tone.

Slowing growth, huge losses and no shareholder control could make Snap Inc.'s IPO a perilous gamble for investors.

For proponents of a "yes" vote, those challenges mean that it is far too perilous for Greece to gamble with its European orientation.

Our current fiscal mess pales in comparison to what could come from the irresponsible gamble on these perilous machines.

A perilous detour into Procter & Gamble-style brand management -- which coincided with a further drop in market share -- is ending.

The route was perilous — vessels were lost every year — but Fuller's passage was a gamble for other reasons, too.

As "Gambler's Rose" opens, Charlie narrowly escapes a perilous back-alley crap game, and he begins to consider getting out of the gambling life altogether.