Example Sentences

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So if the Knicks win, sportsbooks will lose because bettors have been risking a lot of money on them all season long, creating a liability.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

For the past two months, they have been risking their own lives to evacuate civilians from frontline areas.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2022

Getting vaccines to essential workers is paramount, as they have been risking their lives to keep society running, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2021

Schwartz could have been risking his career by embracing Georgopoulos’s ideas.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

To risk speaking to her after the salute would have been risking too much; it was better to allow Bathilde to believe that it was all the effect of chance.

From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Dumas père, Alexandre