Sample Sentences for
peril
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    Save them for the final moment of peril.  (source)
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    How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible.  (source)
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    Winnie thought about this peril to the frogs, and sighed.  (source)
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    When the boy headed off into the Alaska bush, he entertained no illusions that he was trekking into a land of milk and honey; peril, adversity, and Tolstoyan renunciation were precisely what he was seeking.  (source)
    peril = danger
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    Both Rudy and the other boy, Olaf Spiegel, had started undressing now as well, but they were nowhere near the perilous position of Jürgen Schwarz.  (source)
    perilous = dangerous
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    But now there were new fears; the unfamiliar landscape held hidden, unknown perils.  (source)
    perils = dangers
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    From what I could gather on the rare occasions when Isaac shared with the group, a recurrence had placed his remaining eye in mortal peril.  (source)
    peril = danger
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    And there she stayed, for the creek was so slender and the currents so tricky and the oyster beds so perilous that no salvage captains would risk their own vessels to retrieve the Molly Bell.  (source)
    perilous = dangerous
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    LUDO BAGMAN: The perils are plentiful, but the prizes are palpable.†  (source)
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    The peril of their situation was abundantly clear.  (source)
    peril = danger
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    Surely, the span of time between the placing of an order and the arrival of appetizers is one of the most perilous in all human interaction.  (source)
    perilous = dangerous
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    The journey to Epirus still holds many perils.†  (source)
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    "Yellow Peril" Hadley swept through the school with the speed of a flu epidemic, and it must be said to his credit that Brinker took it well enough except when, in its inevitable abbreviation, people sometimes called him "Yellow" instead of "Peril."  (source)
    Peril = danger
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