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  • Any one of us is jeopardizing all the others.†   (source)
  • I was afraid of getting something fundamental wrong again, of jeopardizing Will's health.†   (source)
  • Don't jeopardize our foothold with the Fremen.†   (source)
  • Jeopardized her father's health insurance?†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Words would jeopardize the thread of trust, because they would sound fake.†   (source)
  • Then Powell made a mistake that jeopardized his mission.†   (source)
  • There's something touching about such moments that is jeopardized by running clothes.†   (source)
  • And we cannot allow you, in your present state, to do anything that would jeopardize us all.†   (source)
  • How I lied about the mission, how I jeopardized everyone in pursuit of revenge.†   (source)
  • They might've jeopardized their own lives to save someone who had no chance in the first place.†   (source)
  • I consider telling her that I'm looking for DeeDum, but I don't want to jeopardize him.†   (source)
  • Bethany he would never jeopardize for any reason.†   (source)
  • To pursue my vague plans for freedom meant that I increasingly must jeopardize our safety.†   (source)
  • If your weight jeopardizes your health, exercise and change your eating habits.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • But he was worried, because what he had just seen jeopardized the scheme he had in mind.†   (source)
  • —She's actually jeopardizing her life for these texts, right?†   (source)
  • "See that your dedication doesn't jeopardize my family's reputation."†   (source)
  • It definitely jeopardized our mission, but I couldn't help it.†   (source)
  • And if it is Thomas, would killing him now jeopardize the capture of the forests?†   (source)
  • By so doing you'd jeopardize everything!†   (source)
  • And though these two might jeopardize the rescue, they would live anyway.†   (source)
  • I'd never ask you to jeopardize your career.†   (source)
  • "What I know will also jeopardize yours, General," I answered.†   (source)
  • I've jeopardized everything for you …. for us.†   (source)
  • They flew, the flight plan jeopardizing most of the traffic in their path.†   (source)
  • I said, "Now, look, you have jeopardized our supplies.†   (source)
  • This will jeopardize your career and her reputation.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry about your sister, but I can't jeopardize everyone here based on your word.†   (source)
  • Nor were they the least inclined to lessen or jeopardize in any way their primacy at sea.†   (source)
  • I cannot jeopardize their safety by attempting to contact them.†   (source)
  • "Your impudence will only jeopardize your future, sir;' he said, preparing to write.†   (source)
  • If I defy the laws by which I'm Bound, that balance is jeopardized."†   (source)
  • Unless this can be corrected, negotiations for long-term contract will be serously jeopardized.†   (source)
  • Why should he jeopardize such an arrangement?†   (source)
  • That poor soul might jeopardize all my plans," she muttered.†   (source)
  • He did not want to jeopardize the legality of our unbanned allies.†   (source)
  • I cannot jeopardize the lives of my children.†   (source)
  • No man knew my name; a knowledge of it jeopardized my existence.†   (source)
  • I could jeopardize my job by getting involved in something like this.†   (source)
  • Why should I jeopardize my position by mocking you now?†   (source)
  • Arobynn would have flogged her for saving Nox, jeopardizing her own safety and place in this competition.†   (source)
  • I'm kinder, saying they probably didn't want to jeopardize the chance of taking us out again now that they've gotten some decent footage.†   (source)
  • Besides jeopardizing his job, he could be closing off wide channels of information once Ullman called around and told people to beware of New Englanders bearing questions about the Overlook Hotel.†   (source)
  • Free speech is one thing, but to jeopardize the League over nationalistic rivalries. and it's for people like that, short-sighted, suicidal people, that we're pushing Ender to the edge of human endurance.†   (source)
  • So dumb they jeopardize themselves, and get stuck on cliffs or cornered by wolves, and some custodian has to risk his neck to get them out of trouble.†   (source)
  • It's a soft job for him, running little errands, doing little favors, and there's no way he'd want to jeopardize it.†   (source)
  • Most of the leaders of this city risked their lives to protect it from Jeanine and died, and I will not jeopardize it now for the sake of sating your selfish curiosity.†   (source)
  • An established geisha certainly won't jeopardize her reputation by taking on a younger sister she thinks is dull or someone she thinks her patrons won't like.†   (source)
  • When I finished the article I realized it was not the whole truth but a version that wouldn't jeopardize the integration.†   (source)
  • The ship could only support a certain number of lives, and allowing anyone to disrupt the delicate balance would jeopardize the entire race.†   (source)
  • You cannot jeopardize yourself.†   (source)
  • He must not be asked to perform tasks in any area where an error might jeopardize the success of our forthcoming conference.†   (source)
  • For two tributes to have a shot at winning, our "romance" must be so popular with the audience that condemning it would jeopardize the success of the Games.†   (source)
  • Am I doing something today with my kids to cause them to get their photo taken and jeopardize their privacy?†   (source)
  • There was a very real fear that the Taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit.†   (source)
  • Their looks might even jeopardize their ability to receive a proper reception at the fine Virginia households they planned to call on across the river.†   (source)
  • Then one day I realized that you never would ask me, because you didn't want to hire me away from one of your suppliers and jeopardize your business relationship.†   (source)
  • There were fewer than a hundred human beings on the planet, and Clarke wasn't going to rest until she found the thief who was jeopardizing Thalia's life.†   (source)
  • Not wanting to jeopardize their ascent by stopping to assist him, the Japanese team continued climbing toward the summit.†   (source)
  • Such a situation, we recognized, seriously jeopardized the smooth running of operations, and to spend fifteen minutes or so together at the end of the day in the privacy of Miss Kenton's parlour was the most straightforward remedy.†   (source)
  • And here Mae again had the feeling that she was a very short-sighted person, who repeatedly jeopardized all she'd been given by the Circle.†   (source)
  • Even if they survived long enough to be dragged they would certainly die before they could be carried back to Camp Four, and attempting a rescue would jeopardize the lives of the other climbers on the Col, most of who were going to have enough trouble getting themselves down safely.†   (source)
  • Mae wanted to be with Kalden again, wanted to throw herself around him at that moment, and she didn't want Annie to do anything to jeopardize her access to him, and his broad shoulders, his elegant silhouette.†   (source)
  • They saw that the union was in immediate danger, a danger that would eventually jeopardize their liberty.†   (source)
  • I will not jeopardize the integrity of legal process or the future of my career on a ruling that will be exposed as careless or biased and overturned by a higher court.†   (source)
  • The guilt he felt at his role in jeopardizing the ranch was so genuine, so evident, that she found herself rising from the couch to follow.†   (source)
  • My parents immediately worried that this could jeopardize my chances of going to Beijing, so as an extra precaution they took me to the hospital to get my first tetanus shot, an expensive luxury.†   (source)
  • "The cost in Marines killed will be far greater," he wrote, "because naval support has been so weakened as to jeopardize the success of the operation…"†   (source)
  • Soviet interests could not be jeopardized by the accidental presence at the scene of an act of French criminality.†   (source)
  • But neither he nor any other delegate in Congress would have let the issue jeopardize a declaration of independence, however strong their feelings.†   (source)
  • He made it clear that he was a doctor with a wide and prosperous practice that he would not jeopardize by going to prison.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio, who left the seminary as soon as he reached Rome, continued nourishing the legend of theology and canon law so as not to jeopardize the fabulous inheritance of which his mother's delirious letters spoke and which would rescue him from the misery and sordidness he shared with two friends in a Trastevere garret.†   (source)
  • She had certainly jeopardized everything; and he remembered her declaration: No, thank you, Vivaldo, I don't want to be protected any more.†   (source)
  • Won't this jeopardize Rowan?†   (source)
  • Why on earth would the Workshop jeopardize its existence and technologies to join with little Rowan on the eve of her destruction?†   (source)
  • You're jeopardizing that.†   (source)
  • Does not the absence of good purpose jeopardize the soldier's own ego, thus making him less likely to fight well and bravely?†   (source)
  • Not without jeopardizing any alliance the Clave might want to have with Downworlders in the future, anyway.†   (source)
  • Of course, everyone on the team had been briefed on what to do if we got messages like that, received intimidating or threatening mail, or were confronted in any way that seemed to jeopardize our safety or that of our families, friends, teammates, or coaches.†   (source)
  • He did not imagine, as he would later that night, and in many nights to come, the ways in which he was jeopardizing everything.†   (source)
  • ' But why did these soldiers think that the "infernal rebellion" jeopardized the survival of the glorious republic?†   (source)
  • But Fletcher was saying that the most powerful ideas had been subjugated… because they jeopardized the existence of the Orthodox Church.†   (source)
  • She could not jeopardize any aspect of the relationship, even if it placed an added burden on our family.†   (source)
  • They say, 'Technically, the success in almost one hundred dogs, the ability to sustain life in the recipient and not jeopardize life in the donor, suggests that we are ready to perform this operation on humans.†   (source)
  • It was clear that the bargain between the two of them was a delicate one, and he had jeopardized it by coming here.†   (source)
  • The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.†   (source)
  • They were not meant to be combative; the raucous laughter immediately following them made it clear that by rejecting the pendant Marie-Claude did not wish to jeopardize her friendship with Sabina.†   (source)
  • But turned out I was not jeopardized.†   (source)
  • "How will you answer the fact that you're jeopardizing the case and your position by indulging in a personal relationship with a suspect?†   (source)
  • "If you've done all of this at the demand of this so-called other BoneMan, why would you jeopardize your daughter's life by calling Father Hortense?†   (source)
  • You'll do nothing to jeopardize the lives of five million people, or the vital interests of the United States government.'†   (source)
  • She did not want to jeopardize her position, but she had already bent many rules to benefit her niece.†   (source)
  • The founders of our republic knew that an all-grasping hereditary monarch, supported by a hereditary legislature, jeopardizes liberty.†   (source)
  • Was risk that would jeopardize not only me but could lead to Wyoh, Mum, Greg, and Sidris if I took a fall.†   (source)
  • But it was disconcerting to know that I carried within my body, unbeknownst to Moody, an I.U.D. that could jeopardize my life.†   (source)
  • What prudent merchant will jeopardize his fortunes in a new area of commerce when he doesn't know if his plans may be made unlawful before they can be executed?†   (source)
  • If I testified on behalf of the ANC, I would jeopardize my chances of bringing about reconciliation among the different groups.†   (source)
  • Even though they were in code, I did not want to jeopardize the life of anyone who had made the slightest attempt to help me.†   (source)
  • It was simply too risky, he said, and the organization should not jeopardize my safety, especially as I was newly returned and ready to push ahead with MK.†   (source)
  • Living entirely for his work, he avoided all frivolity which could jeopardize his dream of becoming an engineer.†   (source)
  • I asked, controlling my temper, careful not to do or say anything that would jeopardize the Negroes' position in the area.†   (source)
  • It could jeopardize any possibility of her future reinstatement if word of it got out and reached the proper ears.†   (source)
  • I would hate to jeopardize that big salary I'm getting, but I really have to see some of the parents."†   (source)
  • He has been so persecuted for seeking justice in race relations I was afraid my presence anywhere near him might further jeopardize him.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if it is not, then I think you are guilty of jeopardizing the others by withholding information that would allow us to provide them with a lot more protection than you are capable of giving them all by yourself.†   (source)
  • They feared that one of their own might commit an act of violence that would jeopardize their position by allowing the whites to say they were too dangerous to have their rights.†   (source)
  • I don't intend to jeopardize my own sanity by making wild claims.†   (source)
  • Did the honorable Ashley ever jeopardize his immortal soul by kissing you?†   (source)
  • Had Harrison felt that I had in some way jeopardized his job?†   (source)
  • Do not jeopardize it again.†   (source)
  • Lincoln had gone on record as saying not merely that slavery was "bad policy" but even that it was unjust; but he had done so without jeopardizing his all-important project to transfer the state capital to Springfield.†   (source)
  • But when she brought about the death of Frank and Tommy and jeopardized the lives of a dozen other men, their dislike flamed into public condemnation.†   (source)
  • Jeopardize the security of us all?†   (source)
  • Why jeopardize his case when God already knew what the truth was?†   (source)
  • And how was she to compel him, in the face of his own fears and dangers, to jeopardize his position here?†   (source)
  • I did not wish to jeopardize the advantages of so great a discovery which might be useful to many people, "to a goodly number of the human race," in Erik's words; and I left the cellars of the Opera after carefully replacing the stone.†   (source)
  • [26] Gould also protested against /to jeopardize/, /leniency/ and /to demean/, and Richard Grant White joined him in an onslaught upon /to donate/.†   (source)
  • She was too calculating to jeopardize any advantage she might gain in the way of information by fruitless clamor.†   (source)
  • "Never mind that!" here peremptorily broke in the superior, his face altering with anger, instinctively divining the ship that the other was about to name, one in which the Nore Mutiny had assumed a singularly tragical character that for a time jeopardized the life of its commander.†   (source)
  • The basket being large and heavy, Car had placed it for convenience of porterage on the top of her head, where it rode on in jeopardized balance as she walked with arms akimbo.†   (source)
  • At Elizabeth-Jane mentioning how greatly Lucetta had been jeopardized, he exhibited an agitation different in kind no less than in intensity from any she had seen in him before.†   (source)
  • Would my returning to this subject arouse suspicions that could jeopardize our escape plans, if we had promising circumstances for trying again later on?†   (source)
  • And though the other boats, unharmed, still hovered hard by; still they dared not pull into the eddy to strike, lest that should be the signal for the instant destruction of the jeopardized castaways, Ahab and all; nor in that case could they themselves hope to escape.†   (source)
  • Well; the disclosure of the document to a third person, who shall be nameless, would bring in question the honor of a personage of most exalted station; and this fact gives the holder of the document an ascendancy over the illustrious personage whose honor and peace are so jeopardized.†   (source)
  • If this measure proved fruitless, it could arouse the captain's suspicions, make our circumstances even more arduous, and jeopardize the Canadian's plans.†   (source)
  • Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase.†   (source)
  • Because there were two boats in his wake, and he supposed, no doubt, that they would of course come up to Pip very quickly, and pick him up; though, indeed, such considerations towards oarsmen jeopardized through their own timidity, is not always manifested by the hunters in all similar instances; and such instances not unfrequently occur; almost invariably in the fishery, a coward, so called, is marked with the same ruthless detestation peculiar to military navies and armies.†   (source)
  • …other boat's crews, at the same time, but on the other hand, separated from the ship during the dark vicissitudes of the chase, there had been still another son; as that for a time, the wretched father was plunged to the bottom of the cruellest perplexity; which was only solved for him by his chief mate's instinctively adopting the ordinary procedure of a whale-ship in such emergencies, that is, when placed between jeopardized but divided boats, always to pick up the majority first.†   (source)
  • And when ye come to marriageable years, Where's the bold wooers who will jeopardize To take unto himself such disrepute As to my children's children still must cling, For what of infamy is lacking here?†   (source)
  • Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it jeopardizes.
  • I didn't want to do anything wrong, something which might jeopardise the welfare of my people.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it jeopardize.
  • 'If she catches yeh, it'll be all of our necks on the line,' he told them flatly, and with no desire to do anything that might jeopardise his job further they abstained from walking down to his hut in the evenings.†   (source)
  • "Were you fool enough to tell— " "Hush, Caroline," Father says, then he sent me to help Dilsey get that old cradle out of the attic and I says, "Well, they brought myjob home tonight"because all the time we kept hoping they'd get things straightened out and he'dfool keep her because Mother kept saying she would at least have enough regard for the familynot to jeopardise my chance after she and Quentin had had theirs.†   (source)
  • The blow cut his voice short off; moving, springing backward, he vanished from the fall of light, into the darkness, from which his voice came, still not loud, as if even now he would not jeopardise his partner's business, but tense now with alarm, astonishment: "Don't you hit me!"†   (source)
  • I would not jeopardise my husband's life, nor yet his plans, by speaking to him before strangers.†   (source)
  • …she spoke of the distressing effects that music always had upon her, for he recognised the existence of certain neurasthenic states—but from his habit, common to many doctors, of at once relaxing the strict letter of a prescription as soon as it appeared to jeopardise, what seemed to him far more important, the success of some social gathering at which he was present, and of which the patient whom he had urged for once to forget her dyspepsia or headache formed an essential factor.†   (source)
  • —one of those whose life would be jeopardised if Chauvelin succeeded in establishing the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it jeopardized.
  • If Amelia could have heard the comments regarding her which were made in the circle from which her father's ruin had just driven her, she would have seen what her own crimes were, and how entirely her character was jeopardised.†   (source)
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  • Erin told Mother that my doubting myself—my writing to her, Erin, to ask if I might be mistaken, if my memories might be false—was evidence that my soul was in jeopardy, that I couldn't be trusted: She is building her life on fear.†   (source)
  • While we were waiting for the preacher, she took out her rosary and prayed for Erma's soul, which she feared was in jeopardy since, as she saw it, Erma had committed suicide.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Francis McNamara had begun his last journey with a panicked act, consuming the rafts' precious food stores, and in doing so, he had placed himself and his raftmates in the deepest jeopardy.†   (source)
  • GREAT JEOPARDY.†   (source)
  • My dream Jeopardy! category.†   (source)
  • I bet he could win on Jeopardy.†   (source)
  • His life's work was in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • "Most people believe," Hammond said stiffly, "that the planet is in jeopardy."†   (source)
  • And so the incident rested with Owen Meany receiving the punishment of disciplinary probation for the duration of the winter term; aside from the jeopardy this put him in—in regard to any other trouble he might get into—disciplinary probation was no great imposition, especially for a day boy.†   (source)
  • "You put yourself in jeopardy keeping those," says the second policeman.†   (source)
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  • Having refused what I considered an impertinent request, I could see that my personal safety was in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Now that Ofglen is gone I am alert again, my sluggishness has fallen away, my body is no longer for pleasure only but senses its jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Do you ever have to think, Am I putting my kids' future in jeopardy because I show up at a game?†   (source)
  • But you may have already been followed here, and that puts my wards' lives in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • I lay out how we are all in jeopardy, how the whole country is in jeopardy because of my trick with the berries.†   (source)
  • She hadn't considered that being noticed by the queen could put Kai in jeopardy too.†   (source)
  • He has put the lives of thousands in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • We were somewhat reassured by the fact that between eight-fifteen —when the burglar had first entered the building and put our lives in jeopardy, and ten-thirty, we hadn't heard a sound.†   (source)
  • I'm sure he's also trying to process the fact that his whole life is now in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • It was Artemis the First, our subject's father, who had thrown the family fortune into jeopardy.†   (source)
  • If there is one, we're all in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Mother tries to explain to him day in and day out about how he is putting his own children in jeopardy of their lives, but he won't even listen to his own wife, much less his mere eldest daughter.†   (source)
  • LuLing was like the losing contestant on Jeopardy!†   (source)
  • So you d-d-don't think that w-we are in d-d-d-jeopardy?†   (source)
  • Trust me on this — none of us are in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Just watch a lot of Jeopardy, I guess.†   (source)
  • "Mae, your job isn't in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Now for Double Jeopardy, Final Jeopardy, and all the Daily Doubles on the board, who fought with the good old US of A?†   (source)
  • We could go out to dinner without worrying what family heirloom was in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • When women hold the helm of government, the state is at once in jeopardy, because women regulate their actions not by the demands of universality but by arbitrary inclinations and opinions.†   (source)
  • So was Soros's foundation, for putting their tb project in political jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Coach didn't wait for my answer; he whistled the tune to Jeopardy and ducked out the door.†   (source)
  • Now, suddenly, Moody's career was in jeopardy, my father was dying, and the future looked dismal.†   (source)
  • Mr. de Klerk's failure to respond put our own relationship in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • He knew he had made a crucial error, the kind that could put the very existence of his team in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • It had not really occurred to her before that their careers were in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Or would she be placing the kids and herself in worse jeopardy?†   (source)
  • While the fire no longer posed an immediate threat, their lives were still in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • But I saw this as a movie about a spacecraft in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • If Bol quit and they had to depend on Gus to do the cooking, the whole trip would be in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • The reasons were fuzzy now, lost in the recesses of time, but even then, there had never been a point when he truly believed their marriage to be in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • He studied vehemently, practiced until his health was in jeopardy, and attended the Friday-night sessions with the three Mora sisters, despite his father's express orders to the contrary; for Esteban Trueba persisted in believing that these were not suitable matters for men.†   (source)
  • Fear was driven out by anger, and anger had its own perverted reasoning: What cheek this invader had to put Mary's life in jeopardy!†   (source)
  • My mom says that she has been able to answer many questions on Jeopardy! just by listening to what I have to say, but I've even been ridiculed for being smart.†   (source)
  • Those in greatest jeopardy, the troops in Mifflin's vanguard, were still holding the outer defenses.†   (source)
  • And I had nothing to do with putting your job in jeopardy?†   (source)
  • For the second time I've put David's life in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Besides, he was concerned that he would be putting Beth and Henry in jeopardy if he told them anything about what had happened to him since he'd found himself under surveillance at the beach.†   (source)
  • It took no lives, in the literal sense, but since it took another six to eight feet of fast land off the southern end of the island, four families whose houses were in jeopardy moved to the mainland.†   (source)
  • Then they divided into four teams to play a game like Jeopardy! in which they were awarded points for getting the right answers to language questions.†   (source)
  • He felt like someone who goes to an ocean promontory on a stormy day and stands with his feet in jeopardy of the sea.†   (source)
  • We should not expose the Union to the jeopardy of more experiments in the effort to find a perfect plan.†   (source)
  • Then he doused both rice and meat in juice, until his plate was in jeopardy of brimming over.†   (source)
  • As long as we are not in jeopardy of violating bar regulations.†   (source)
  • Nay, it is the last move in a great jeopardy, and for one side or the other it will bring the end of the game.†   (source)
  • "Jeopardy," for example, I got to know from Drums of Jeopardy with Alice Brady, who was wearing a leopard skin, a verbal connection I shall never forget.†   (source)
  • Why do you place your life in jeopardy by seeking me thus?†   (source)
  • Mr. Powell has been forced to abandon the case and… well… his career is very much in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Think of the jeopardy …. of his deeds.†   (source)
  • 5 million film project in jeopardy, he made the crucial gas available without hesitation.†   (source)
  • And now for our final Jeopardy! round ….†   (source)
  • Now, Final, Final, No-More-Last-Chance Jeopardy.†   (source)
  • But to put herself in deliberate jeopardy ….†   (source)
  • Your beliefs are in jeopardy only when you don't know what they are.†   (source)
  • Do we put our world in jeopardy to preserve their family intact?†   (source)
  • "You didn't realize that you were putting them in jeopardy—did you?"†   (source)
  • It also put a healthy donor's life in real jeopardy, as the liver, unlike the kidney, is unpaired.†   (source)
  • Her secrets were no longer in jeopardy; Jared and Jamie could never be betrayed by her memories.†   (source)
  • Because now I do know the jeopardy I'm putting you in, and I've got to consider it."†   (source)
  • The television crew means to provide a sense of heightened jeopardy by releasing smoke bombs and adding gunfire sound effects.†   (source)
  • There were moments-when Jeopardy came on, in the car during radio trivia challenges, or for practically any question I couldn't answer in any subject-that Rogerson simply amazed me.†   (source)
  • I was afraid to seek out Colonel Regan, afraid that word would get back to Madam and our lives be put in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • And then I thought that here were Serena and Ti Fifi trying to save a boy's life, while Alix, sweetly smiling at the wheel, was putting dozens of other lives in jeopardy, just now those of two boys sharing a bicycle, the truck's side mirror nearly brushing their shoulders.†   (source)
  • The planet is not in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • In one, a young Joseph Mobutu looks out imploringly above a caption declaring his position in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • We can assume that once her companion Ofglen's association with Mayday had been discovered, he himself was in some jeopardy, for as he well knew, as a member of the Eyes, Offred herself was certain to be interrogated.†   (source)
  • We are in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • They were pale and displaced and complained of missing their dire-sounding TV shows, things with Vice and Cop and Jeopardy in their titles.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that pih would probably always be in some kind of financial jeopardy, because it was constitutionally impossible for Farmer and Kim to sit on resources—to wait for lower drug prices while mdr killed Russian prisoners, to save for an endowment for Zanmi Lasante while Haitian peasants died of AIDS.†   (source)
  • They'd probably leave the Congo never knowing they'd been utterly surrounded by vice, cops, and the pure snake-infested jeopardy of a jungle.†   (source)
  • Even the huge sphere of the planet had been put into jeopardy through their careless and greedy mistakes.†   (source)
  • The "honor of the country is pros-trated in the dust—God grant that its safety may not be in jeopardy," Timothy Pickering wrote to George Washington.†   (source)
  • He said the reason was that if this killer who's posing as my husband —what my husband was in people's eyes — murdered a high political figure on either side, or started an underworld war, Hong Kong's status would be in immediate jeopardy.†   (source)
  • He leaned on his elbows, closer to Bethany, and she sat up even straighter, readying herself, like someone on Jeopardy awaiting the Daily Double.†   (source)
  • Then one evening we were all watching "Jeopardy!" and, right after we'd cleared a category on water fowl, who pops up on screen but Sumner, with his cheese and his big grin and of course the line, which was by that point known to the entire family and a few neighbors, all of whom called to make sure we'd seen the commercial.†   (source)
  • The entire sale is in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • With the family home in jeopardy—his father was a bus driver and worked for the Port Authority until retirement—Jeremy bypassed his graduation ceremony to track down the con man.†   (source)
  • The people who want to break up America into several separate confederacies know that if the Constitution is rejected, the Union will be in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Still, a sheep that was known for bleating a great deal would not stay silent if his dignity was affronted or his business was in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Cooke wrote, "The day that the immigrant's tongue becomes the first language of any community or— God forbid—a state, the American experiment will be in serious jeopardy of falling apart.†   (source)
  • The Hessian officer Johann Ewald, an intelligent and experienced soldier, concluded that Cornwallis had no desire to put his valuable troops in needless jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Then, in May, with the weather unseasonably wet and cold and influenza rampant in the city, Washington was suddenly taken so ill it appeared the one unifying force respected by all was in mortal jeopardy.†   (source)
  • The national government can first raise troops, then keep them as long as the peace or safety of the community is in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Hema turned back to probe once more that calamitous space in Sister Mary Joseph Praise's body where two lives were in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Maybe, at the instant of greatest jeopardy, Nina could send herself into that safe bright blueness as she had done just before the 747 plowed into the meadow.†   (source)
  • It is hard to imagine dangers formidable enough to attack the whole nation, demanding a force large enough to place our liberties in jeopardy, especially when we remember that the militia should always be counted on as a valuable and powerful addition to the military.†   (source)
  • Saintly Amma had identified a Belgian nun who had broken away from her order, and who had made a most tenuous foothold in Yemen, in Aden, a foothold that was in jeopardy because of the nun's ill health.†   (source)
  • Simply by going to Colorado and knocking on Barbara's door, he had put her, her son, and her son's entire family in terrible jeopardy—although he'd had no way of knowing this would be the consequence of his visit.†   (source)
  • No jeopardy.†   (source)
  • It must have been the only way he could call upon his life-will, to bind him again to his task — by placing himself in jeopardy, by casting his very existence with each roll of the dice.†   (source)
  • Mr. Samgrass gave evidence that Sebastian bore an irreproachable character and that a brilliant future at the University was in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • There were rumors that a very important station was in jeopardy, and its chief, Mr. Kurtz, was ill.†   (source)
  • "And I'm to wear my brogues and run jeopardy of the red-coats to please you?" cries Alan.†   (source)
  • You have placed his immortal soul in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Every hour, every minute of my existence was in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • But, father, when all our lives are in the utmost jeopardy!†   (source)
  • Hunger and cold pursue them; every day their life is in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Each minute added to the jeopardy of the fugitives.†   (source)
  • But this was not the only jamming jeopardy he was exposed to.†   (source)
  • It was some comfort (to those whose securities were not in jeopardy) to be able to remind themselves that Beaufort WAS; but, after all, if a Dallas of South Carolina took his view of the case, and glibly talked of his soon being "on his feet again," the argument lost its edge, and there was nothing to do but to accept this awful evidence of the indissolubility of marriage.†   (source)
  • Now, I longed to see the inside of a ship more than words can tell; but I was not going to put myself in jeopardy, and I told him my uncle and I had an appointment with a lawyer.†   (source)
  • …Major (who never told fibs, however they might be to his advantage) what was the real hour of the morning, he broke out into a volley of bad language, which we will not repeat here, but by which he gave Dobbin to understand that he would jeopardy his soul if he got up at that moment, that the Major might go and be hanged, that he would not travel with Dobbin, and that it was most unkind and ungentlemanlike to disturb a man out of his sleep in that way; on which the discomfited Major…†   (source)
  • The daily-renewed promise of the young man that the moment would not long be delayed, had alone kept him in the service of a Musketeer—a service in which, he said, his soul was in constant jeopardy.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXVI WEALTH IN JEOPARDY—THE REVEL One night, at the end of August, when Bathsheba's experiences as a married woman were still new, and when the weather was yet dry and sultry, a man stood motionless in the stockyard of Weatherbury Upper Farm, looking at the moon and sky.†   (source)
  • There was a moment when the life of the old soldier was in great jeopardy but the object to shoot at was both too large and too near for the Leather-Stocking, who, instead of pulling his trigger, applied the gun to the rear of his enemy, and by a powerful shove sent him outside of the works with much greater rapidity than he had entered them.†   (source)
  • But I would observe, that a government which encourages this tendency risks its own tranquillity, and places its very existence in great jeopardy.†   (source)
  • But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.†   (source)
  • Tom scored his accounts, and resolved to keep to the very letter of his reform, and never to put that will in jeopardy again.†   (source)
  • What can be more fitting and consolatory, than to offer up evening praise, after a day of such exceeding jeopardy!†   (source)
  • He might have been thus employed a minute, when, happening to turn his face towards the land, his quick and certain eye told him, at a glance, the imminent jeopardy in which his life was placed.†   (source)
  • So saying, Ishmael deliberately led the way back towards his rifled encampment, and ushered the man, whose life a few minutes before had been in real jeopardy from his resentment, into the presence of his family.†   (source)
  • Now then, if the crew of this underwater boat have a personal interest in keeping that secret, and if their personal interest is more important than the lives of three men, I believe that our very existence is in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • He said he would show by a chain of circumstantial evidence without break or fault in it anywhere, that the principal prisoner at the bar committed the murder; that the motive was partly revenge, and partly a desire to take his own life out of jeopardy, and that his brother, by his presence, was a consenting accessory to the crime; a crime which was the basest known to the calendar of human misdeeds—assassination; that it was conceived by the blackest of hearts and consummated by the…†   (source)
  • For himself he cared far less than for his daughter, feeling some of that self-reliance which seldom deserts a man of firmness who is in vigorous health, and who has been accustomed to personal exertions in moments of jeopardy; but as respects Mabel he saw no means of escape, and, with a father's fondness, he at once determined that, if either was doomed to perish, he and his daughter must perish together.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he reflected on the retribution that had alighted on his late comrade, and bethought him of the frightful jeopardy in which his own life had so lately been placed.†   (source)
  • "Give him, in pity, give him the contents of another rifle," cried Duncan, turning away his eyes in horror from the spectacle of a fellow creature in such awful jeopardy.†   (source)
  • His ambition will be more and more cooled in proportion as the increasing distinction of his rank teaches him that he has more to put in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • All alive to his jeopardy, he was going "head out"; that part obliquely projecting from the mad yeast which he brewed.†   (source)
  • The master gave her none, for one of his speculations was in jeopardy, and his mind was so occupied that he hardly saw the children when he looked at them, and all Roxy had to do was to get them both into a gale of laughter when he came about; then their faces were mainly cavities exposing gums, and he was gone again before the spasm passed and the little creatures resumed a human aspect.†   (source)
  • I once made a forced march, and went through a great deal of jeopardy, with a companion who never opened his mouth but to sing; and trouble enough and great concern of mind did the fellow give me.†   (source)
  • As they are all more or less engaged in productive industry, at the least shock given to business all private fortunes are put in jeopardy at the same time, and the State is shaken.†   (source)
  • So nice, indeed, were the distinctions drawn by the savages in cases of this nature, that they often gave their victims a chance to evade the torture, deeming it as creditable to the captors to overtake, or to outwit a fugitive, when his exertions were supposed to be quickened by the extreme jeopardy of his situation, as it was for him to get clear from so much extraordinary vigilance.†   (source)
  • Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant, that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of themselves and every one else.†   (source)
  • He approached the tent, and was about to sever two of its folds, with the very obvious intention of examining, more closely, into the nature of its contents, when the man who had once already placed his life in jeopardy, seized him by the arm, and with a rude exercise of his strength threw him from the spot he had selected as the one most convenient for his object.†   (source)
  • The reason is plain:—if the private right of an individual is violated at a time when the human mind is fully impressed with the importance and the sanctity of such rights, the injury done is confined to the individual whose right is infringed; but to violate such a right, at the present day, is deeply to corrupt the manners of the nation and to put the whole community in jeopardy, because the very notion of this kind of right constantly tends amongst us to be impaired and lost.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events, be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands.†   (source)
  • If men living in democratic countries had no right and no inclination to associate for political purposes, their independence would be in great jeopardy; but they might long preserve their wealth and their cultivation: whereas if they never acquired the habit of forming associations in ordinary life, civilization itself would be endangered.†   (source)
  • …the world a young American woman finds these notions firmly established; she sees the rules which are derived from them; she is not slow to perceive that she cannot depart for an instant from the established usages of her contemporaries, without putting in jeopardy her peace of mind, her honor, nay even her social existence; and she finds the energy required for such an act of submission in the firmness of her understanding and in the virile habits which her education has given her.†   (source)
  • His greatest admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him.†   (source)
  • …on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just…†   (source)
  • How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lavaine departed out of the field, and in what jeopardy Launcelot was.†   (source)
  • Then spake they all at once: We will not jeopardy our bodies as for thee.†   (source)
  • And when he might speak he asked Sir Launcelot why he put his life in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, ye put yourself in great jeopardy.†   (source)
  • And there Sir Bors told the queen in what jeopardy Sir Launcelot was when he would assay his horse.†   (source)
  • THEN stood the realm in great jeopardy long while, for every lord that was mighty of men made him strong, and many weened to have been king.†   (source)
  • …on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just…†   (source)
  • But now go again lightly, for thy long tarrying putteth me in great jeopardy of my life, for I have taken cold.†   (source)
  • Wit you well there was many a lady and knight marvelled that Sir Launcelot would jeopardy himself in such wise.†   (source)
  • How the queen espied that Sir Tristram had slain her brother Sir Marhaus by his sword, and in what jeopardy he was.†   (source)
  • And therefore I suppose she shall not be all distained, but that some good knight shall put his body in jeopardy for my queen rather than she shall be brent in a wrong quarrel.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot unto Arthur, by this cry that ye have made ye will put us that be about you in great jeopardy, for there be many knights that have great envy to us; therefore when we shall meet at the day of jousts there will be hard shift among us.†   (source)
  • Then the king came to Queen Guenever, and said, Lady, make you ready, for ye shall go with me, for I may not long miss you; ye shall cause me to be the more hardy, what adventure so befall me; I will not wit my lady to be in no jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Then began the battle to be great, that our knights were in great jeopardy, wherefore Sir Gawaine sent to King Arthur for succour, and that he hie him, for I am sore wounded, and that our prisoners may pay goods out of number.†   (source)
  • SO Sir Launcelot departed, and took his sword under his arm, and so in his mantle that noble knight put himself in great Jeopardy; and so he passed till he came to the queen's chamber, and then Sir Launcelot was lightly put into the chamber.†   (source)
  • And when King Mark and his barons of Cornwall beheld how young Sir Tristram departed with such a carriage to fight for the right of Cornwall, there was neither man nor woman of worship but they wept to see and understand so young a knight to jeopardy himself for their right.†   (source)
  • And when Sir Tristram saw that there was none other boot but needs that he must die, then said he: Fair lords, remember what I have done for the country of Cornwall, and in what jeopardy I have been in for the weal of you all; for when I fought for the truage of Cornwall with Sir Marhaus, the good knight, I was promised for to be better rewarded, when ye all refused to take the battle; therefore, as ye be good gentle knights, see me not thus shamefully to die, for it is shame to all…†   (source)
  • And therewith one of them smote Sir Gawaine a great stroke that nigh he fell to the earth, and Gaheris smote him again sore, and so they were on the one side and on the other, that Sir Gawaine and Gaheris were in jeopardy of their lives; and one with a bow, an archer, smote Sir Gawaine through the arm that it grieved him wonderly sore.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, ye put yourself in great jeopardy.†   (source)
  • And there Sir Bors told the queen in what jeopardy Sir Launcelot was when he would assay his horse.†   (source)
  • Then spake they all at once: We will not jeopardy our bodies as for thee.†   (source)
  • How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lavaine departed out of the field, and in what jeopardy Launcelot was.†   (source)
  • And when he might speak he asked Sir Launcelot why he put his life in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • …fixing his thoughts, apparently, upon his lady Dulcinea, exclaimed, "Aid me, lady mine, in this the first encounter that presents itself to this breast which thou holdest in subjection; let not thy favour and protection fail me in this first jeopardy;" and, with these words and others to the same purpose, dropping his buckler he lifted his lance with both hands and with it smote such a blow on the carrier's head that he stretched him on the ground, so stunned that had he followed it up…†   (source)
  • They who promote the idea of substituting a number of distinct confederacies in the room of the plan of the convention, seem clearly to foresee that the rejection of it would put the continuance of the Union in the utmost jeopardy.†   (source)
  • THEN stood the realm in great jeopardy long while, for every lord that was mighty of men made him strong, and many weened to have been king.†   (source)
  • Jupartie: Jeopardy, hazard.†   (source)
  • Since thou wilt build so wondrous high Thy deeds of service in my jeopardy, 30 EURIPIDES To all my crew and quest I know but one Saviour, of Gods or mortals one alone, The Cyprian.†   (source)
  • I answer in the next place, that I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan.†   (source)
  • …very little if he is in the other world; for I will rescue him thence in spite of all the same world can do; or at any rate I will give you such a revenge over those who shall have sent him there that you will be more than moderately satisfied;" and without saying anything more he went and knelt before Dorothea, requesting her Highness in knightly and errant phrase to be pleased to grant him permission to aid and succour the castellan of that castle, who now stood in grievous jeopardy.†   (source)
  • And then the jeopardy, For good or ill, what shall that master be; Reject she cannot : and if he but stays His suit, 'tis shame on all that woman's daysr; So thrown amid new laws, new places, why, 'tis magic she must have, or prophecy Home never taught her that how best to guide Toward peace this thing that sleepeth at her side.†   (source)
  • How the queen espied that Sir Tristram had slain her brother Sir Marhaus by his sword, and in what jeopardy he was.†   (source)
  • It is not easy to conceive a possibility that dangers so formidable can assail the whole Union, as to demand a force considerable enough to place our liberties in the least jeopardy, especially if we take into our view the aid to be derived from the militia, which ought always to be counted upon as a valuable and powerful auxiliary.†   (source)
  • This must undoubtedly be submitted to the national government, and the matter would then be brought to this issue, that the national government, to provide against apprehended danger, might in the first instance raise troops, and might afterwards keep them on foot as long as they supposed the peace or safety of the community was in any degree of jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Then began the battle to be great, that our knights were in great jeopardy, wherefore Sir Gawaine sent to King Arthur for succour, and that he hie him, for I am sore wounded, and that our prisoners may pay goods out of number.†   (source)
  • And when King Mark and his barons of Cornwall beheld how young Sir Tristram departed with such a carriage to fight for the right of Cornwall, there was neither man nor woman of worship but they wept to see and understand so young a knight to jeopardy himself for their right.†   (source)
  • Wit you well there was many a lady and knight marvelled that Sir Launcelot would jeopardy himself in such wise.†   (source)
  • …other departments; that as all the effects of such a union must ensue from a dependence of the former on the latter, notwithstanding a nominal and apparent separation; that as, from the natural feebleness of the judiciary, it is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced by its co-ordinate branches; and that as nothing can contribute so much to its firmness and independence as permanency in office, this quality may therefore be justly regarded as an indispensable…†   (source)
  • But now go again lightly, for thy long tarrying putteth me in great jeopardy of my life, for I have taken cold.†   (source)
  • Then the king came to Queen Guenever, and said, Lady, make you ready, for ye shall go with me, for I may not long miss you; ye shall cause me to be the more hardy, what adventure so befall me; I will not wit my lady to be in no jeopardy.†   (source)
  • And therewith one of them smote Sir Gawaine a great stroke that nigh he fell to the earth, and Gaheris smote him again sore, and so they were on the one side and on the other, that Sir Gawaine and Gaheris were in jeopardy of their lives; and one with a bow, an archer, smote Sir Gawaine through the arm that it grieved him wonderly sore.†   (source)
  • And therefore I suppose she shall not be all distained, but that some good knight shall put his body in jeopardy for my queen rather than she shall be brent in a wrong quarrel.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot unto Arthur, by this cry that ye have made ye will put us that be about you in great jeopardy, for there be many knights that have great envy to us; therefore when we shall meet at the day of jousts there will be hard shift among us.†   (source)
  • And when Sir Tristram saw that there was none other boot but needs that he must die, then said he: Fair lords, remember what I have done for the country of Cornwall, and in what jeopardy I have been in for the weal of you all; for when I fought for the truage of Cornwall with Sir Marhaus, the good knight, I was promised for to be better rewarded, when ye all refused to take the battle; therefore, as ye be good gentle knights, see me not thus shamefully to die, for it is shame to all…†   (source)
  • SO Sir Launcelot departed, and took his sword under his arm, and so in his mantle that noble knight put himself in great Jeopardy; and so he passed till he came to the queen's chamber, and then Sir Launcelot was lightly put into the chamber.†   (source)
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  • DeVante mimics the Jeopardy! music.   (source)
    jeopardy = One-time popular television quiz shoe
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