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What does peril mean?
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peril

Peril is a situation of serious and immediate danger.

peril

(= hazard) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune drinking alcohol is a health hazard (= riskiness) a state of danger involving risk (= risk, danger) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime there was a danger he would do the wrong thing (= queer) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position (= endanger) pose a threat to; present a danger to The pollution is endangering the crops

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Simple sentences

Many wild animals are in peril of losing their lives.
Sami realized the peril he was in.

Movie subtitles

And it's a story we ignore at our peril, because today, after half a millennium of tilting westwards, the world seems inexorably to be tilting to the East.
My dear Christine You are in no peril as long as you do not touch my mask.
Will Mr. Norton concede human life is in constant peril in this wild region from which this child was rescued?
Your life might be in peril.
England, which now stands in mortal peril.
Sir Lancelot, when this land was in need and peril. you gave service in its cause that ill deserves rewarding by a headman's ax.
In our peril we plead.
An abandoned village, still heavy with peril.
As a king's counsel, Montagu, and a leading member of the bar. you've sometimes defended a man in peril of his life.
I tell you, believe me, the children are in dreadful peril.
The man who escapes, or resigns in times of peril. or the man who stays on his post. at the risk of his own personal safety?
Always, when my friends are in peril.
Were this to be ratified, all Christendom would be in peril.
The Yellow Peril!
This man can't be moved without peril to his life.
Senator Babcock, I'm here to inform you of great peril to your life.
It's said that in a time of great peril. two birds of the fairest coloring would appear. and the clouds of disaster would roll away like the mist.
I swear that you're in grave peril.
In our peril we plead. Succour and comfort us in this hour.
Do not try to put my head in peril or make me to tell lies!
Thou knowest the dreadful dangers of the deep, the storms that rise, the whirlpools that engulf, the monsters that dwell below, the peril of the Spanish ships.
We must warn them. No! Earth has been in peril over 50 years but nothing has happened.
I TELL YOU, BELIEVE ME, THE CHILDREN ARE IN DREADFUL PERIL.
As I was about to say with our steady hands at the helm I am confident that the good ship Battledore will continue to buffet her way through storm and tempest providing a safe haven for those who are in peril on the sea of life.
Try to avoid your peril.
Save us from this peril, O Lord God.
You're too intoxicated to realize your peril, sir.
Make no resistance at your peril.
The hysteria which has greeted the Martians claims has become a national peril. All this after the release of only three messages.
We cross the river at our peril.
Hand in hand we walk, and every trouble and every peril, which.
Every trouble and every peril which.
The man who escapes or resigns in times of peril?
The defence will show that Ernst Janning's personal physician was a non-Aryan. A Jewish man who he kept in attendance, much to his own peril.
The peril that threatens us now is even greater than it was then.
And besides, the Moor may unfold me to him. There stand I in peril.
You waste my time at your peril.

News and current affairs

COPENHAGEN - Public skepticism about global warming may be growing, but the scientific consensus is as solid as ever: man-made climate change is real, and we ignore it at our peril.
If Obama fails, the next administration will be sorely tempted to create some diversion from troubles at home - at great peril to the world.
You ignore social and political contexts at your peril.
In the 60 years since World War II came to an end, we have counted on each other in times of peril and challenge.
The fear is real and visceral, and politicians ignore it at their peril.
But, while we focus on immediate concerns, they continue to fester, and we overlook them at our peril.
The American fantasy of a final battle, in Falluja or elsewhere, or the capture of some terrorist mastermind, perpetuates a cycle of bloodletting that puts the world in peril.
But they also see an unprecedented level of hostility from the West, with regime after regime seeming to be either in peril or facing chaos.
Politicians ignore popular anxiety at their peril.
The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril.
Haiti's situation is fraught with peril.
All these states are in peril of sliding into violent conflict.
So foreigners ignore tribal loyalties at their peril.
Peril or Promise in North Korea?
In the case of Palin - and especially that of Bachmann - we ignore the wide appeal of right-wing feminism at our peril.
Do you see foreign investment and acquisitions in America as a positive development or a potential peril?
Yet politicians push back on Big Food at their peril.
This pits them against one another and has precipitated panic, putting refugees in even greater peril.
As at so many times before, now - with all of our economies in peril - is a moment for decisive French leadership.
That, unfortunately, is a lesson of Japan's disaster that we continue to ignore at our peril.
The debacle of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 should have taught us once and for all the peril of talking only through the barrel of a gun to those whose behavior disgusts us.
But they will do so at their peril.
But, just as we cannot afford to underestimate the forces of extremism that persist there, we also fail at our peril to comprehend the currents of restraint and good sense that run within the country, including at high policymaking levels.

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