Example Sentences
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Canada's federal government on Monday gave Marineland conditional approval to sell its 30 imperilled beluga whales to parks in the United States, after rejecting an export request to China.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
The relative bonhomie in Paris was briefly imperilled at the outset by a furore when organisers mixed up the two nations’ names in the opening ceremony, for which they apologised.
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024
Thus they “are emissaries from an imperilled ecosystem.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
U.S. prosecutors and Western security officials regard the Australian-born Assange as a reckless enemy of the state whose actions imperilled the lives of agents named in the leaked material.
From Reuters • Dec. 2, 2022
But the Irish prelates, by their disinterestedness, and their personal and episcopal virtues, saved the Church from the degradation that imperilled her.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
