Sentence examples for were risk-free from inspiring English sources
adjective
Free from or devoid of risk; safe.
- While no investment is risk-free, some have less risk involved than others.
Many savers who bought the shares thought they were risk-free deposits from high street banks.
But when they arrived, we learned that Europe was still assuming that European sovereign debts were risk-free.
Current E.U. regulations treat euro zone government bonds as if they were risk-free, despite a crisis that proved otherwise.
Regulations still treat European government debt as if it were risk-free, though it obviously is not.
It did that at the cost of discouraging lending, since there were risk-free profits to be made while the banks cleaned up from the mess their all-too-risky previous lending had produced.
You can't help think, as you walk through this gigantic store with its optimistic orange You Can Do It banners, that you may be observing the first glimpse of a soon-to-be-bygone era when everyone thought homes were risk-free investments.
But neither is risk-free.
None of the options are risk-free.
A "yes" ballot was risk-free.
We cannot say e-cigarettes are risk-free.
