Sentence examples for were 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
Ghiorso's chances of having an eponymous element were imperilled under circumstances more tragic than bizarre14.
But in that year, 1985, the papers were imperilled by a print union strike aimed at preventing the introduction of computer technology.
They were joined by other workers who lived in the communities in the path of the tsunami or which were imperilled by the reactor meltdowns.
The economy was flush with cash, and Iranians needed to find safe places to invest it; since domestic industries were imperilled by the flood of imports, the obvious alternative was real estate.
Denly chipped to mid-wicket, Trott chopped on a touch carelessly and when Collingwood contributed his wicket by taking a dodgy second run only to be just short, England were imperilled.
Last summer, a coalition of seventy-nine human-rights and relief organizations wrote an open letter to the international community calling for better security in Afghanistan and warning that the Presidential elections there, now scheduled for September, were imperilled.
German strongpoints in the mountains around Cassino were imperilling the allied advance towards Rome.
When I explained that I thought the Glazers were imperilling the very future of the club, they looked at me as if I'd lost my mind.
Trade deals will be imperilled outside.
"Hungarian democracy is imperilled," he told me.
Sooner or later, Makoko will be imperilled.
