Sentence examples for the imperilled from inspiring English sources
verb
To put into peril; to place in danger or cause a hazard.
- "Boating and fishing groups contend that the 130 [wind energy] towers would be a navigation hazard and offshore construction would imperil the fisheries." "Wind Out of Their Sails", Jeffrey Winters, p. 31, Mechanical Engineering, June 2006
Here is a brief selection of the books I've recently had to stop reading, physically prevented by a nauseous, hormonal impulse to protect the imperilled victims: Val McDermid's The Vanishing Point, in which a child is abducted at an airport.
Virtually tangible evidence of the extent to which the imperilled oak forest of British music journalism was denuded by last year's closure of Plan B magazine can now be found at www.planbmag.com, where all 46 editions of this artistically packaged publication are now nostalgically (and freely) downloadable in.pdf form.
I suspect this is a sidelong way of introducing her own role: as ambassador between worlds, the one imperilled and the other mindlessly, blindly imperilling.
The growing influence of the Temple Mount groups, on the one hand, and of Islamist movements in East Jerusalem, on the other, has imperilled the future of the site.
They shut down a main national transportation system, and in the process imperilled one of the nation's big industries.
Ratcliffe responded by locking out the workers the next day and shutting down the plant, imperilling the Scottish economy.
He also admitted that the violence had imperilled the economy.
That's the mission imperilled by Facebook.
But, in doing so, the company imperils the business models built around cable TV.
In 1922, composer Dane Rudhyar, a friend of Cowell's, declared approvingly that the development of the tone cluster "imperilled [the] existence" of "the musical unit, the note".
The 1999 law, the brief said, "imperils the media's ability to report on issues related to animals".
