Example Sentences

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Along with gaseous reactive nitrogen, satellites burning up as they re-enter the atmosphere at the end of their lives leave tiny particles of aluminum oxide, imperilling the still-recovering ozone layer.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

The basins are home to two thirds of Earth's biodiversity, but rapid destruction is releasing planet-warming carbon dioxide and imperilling global climate targets.

From Reuters • Oct. 28, 2023

Officials held the robot for 10 days, imperilling plans to show her work at the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2021

She wanted to report what she’d seen, but a co-worker warned her that she would be imperilling herself.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

Their shooting, however, is ludicrously bad, and the bullets and “pot-legs” whiz high overhead, imperilling no one.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram