Sentence for risk | Use risk in a sentence

Sentence using the word risk. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use risk in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for risk.

• He had run a risk. (8)
• I had to risk it. (10)
• Yes, Risk shot me. (18)
• I risk offending you. (10)
• It was too great a risk. (8)
• You must not run this risk. (8)
• Nay, I may risk declaring it is! (10)
• But I shall risk their effect on him. (9)
• The risk looked greater than it was. (10)
• We must risk everything to get him out. (10)
• Of course, it is a risk, sir; but there! (8)
• Joachim Heinzen hesitated to risk so much. (12)
• If they followed his hand, he would risk it. (8)
• The risk of her casting it of had to be faced. (10)
• Must speak the truth sometimes, even at that risk. (8)
• Perhaps he thought it well not to risk his gains. (10)
• If it were his own life, would he be taking that risk? (8)
• We shall run a great risk, with this play, if we rollick. (8)
• We shall not get them without faith enough to risk the old! (8)
• At the risk of breaking our partnership for ever, I intervene. (10)
• She would risk nothing on the credit of any single intercessor. (2)
• Yet he did not wish any harm to come to Risk during the fight. (18)
• Captain Risk must earn his safety, if he were to save his ship. (18)
• That was clear to me from the beginning, and yet I took the risk. (12)
• The next caller was Captain Samuel Risk, of the Privateer Holker. (18)
• I might have known that Risk would not have divulged his principal. (18)
• He need say no more to her this evening, and risk giving himself away. (8)
• He would be taking a great risk to grasp that promised lump of money. (13)
• It describes, to risk a mathematical pun, a sort of drunken hyperbola. (16)
• She was aware that this was a risk she ran in such an attempt to do good. (9)
• Under the canvas the greater the risk the more enjoyment it accords him. (21)
• You are always labouring and toiling, exposed to every risk and hardship. (4)
• I would not risk my life in that service for all of your combined wealth. (18)
• In this way, little risk was run, and one would be able to have a motor-car. (8)
• He may have thought it well not further to run the personal risk immediately. (10)
• To contest the will would be a risk and, moreover, would be ungrateful, petty. (13)
• While Graves talked in his thick, guttural tones, Hart was weighing this risk. (13)
• He did not choose to report himself to Westover, and risk a scolding, or a snubbing. (9)
• That evening Captain Risk saw four boat-loads come back from the frigate to the sloop. (18)
• I had tried to be of some service to Risk, but he has put me in my present predicament. (18)
• He drove into the streets, desiring, half determining, to risk a drive back on the morrow. (10)
• Their aim is to see to it that those who patronize their service do so at no financial risk. (21)
• As to the risk of proceedings being taken against him, he laughed scornfully at the suggestion. (10)
• With this particular pair, inbred to the uttermost, he had successfully surmounted a great risk. (8)
• Besides, if Evan had found money on the body he would never have run the risk of taking that ring. (8)
• The weaker submitted, as a rule, for it had to or risk a war in which it would be at a disadvantage. (7)
• And of how it was a terrible risk with Derek and darling Nedda, not at all a wise match, she was afraid. (8)
• If I had rubbed my face with a scrubbing-brush, I could not look worse, and I cannot risk your seeing me. (10)
• If I had rubbed my face with a scrubbing-brush, I could not look worse, and I cannot risk your seeing me. (22)
• An accountant had many more chances, but let him be put with a good firm, where there was no risk at starting! (8)
• And I must tell you candidly, you run great risk of missing all these things by hunting your father to earth. (10)
• She blushed at the very idea, and thought it would be better to speak openly to her aunt than to run such a risk. (4)
• When another autumn came, it was thought best for him not to risk the confinement of another winter in the North. (9)
• If he deems the risk not too venturesome, the performer accepts cheerfully, no matter what is his own conviction. (21)
• Better wait an hour or two, or even half a day for your letters, than run the risk of bringing on your cough again. (4)
• But the smoke hid the Holker from the frigate for an instant, and the valiant Risk held his ship right upon the bar. (18)
• Captain Risk now had his gear well cleared up and the shrouds well set up to stand a run before the ten-knot breeze. (18)
• Captain Risk was killed, but he had inflicted a serious wound in the heat of battle, upon the plotter of the scheme. (18)
• I am sure, rather than run the risk of hurting Mr. and Mrs. Cole, you would stay a little longer than you might wish. (4)
• Its ingenuity, can always afford a refined pleasure, and it can often, at some risk to itself, convey a valuable truth. (9)
• He found himself now in the embarrassing position of one who must pay a compliment or run the risk of losing a good thing. (8)
• If a boarding party from the English frigate did not attack him, Captain Risk was preparing his ship for a chance to escape. (18)
• As quick as a flash, Risk came about on the starboard tack, passed astern and raked the cruiser a second time from stem to stern. (18)
• When the long tom dealt its carnage, enough remained to rush upon Risk and his little band, where a hand-to-hand encounter ensued. (18)
• At the risk of their lives, Montcalm and his officers strove to save the fugitives, but not until nearly 1000 had been slain did they succeed. (19)
• The next morning very early he sent his clerk for Captain Samuel Risk of the Privateer Holker, in which ship he held the controlling interest. (18)
• I drove them on to risk their lives because I thought myself so much better than they; because I was self- righteous and suspicious and stubborn. (9)

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Definition of risk:

• risk, risk, n. hazard: chance of loss or injury. | v.t. to expose to hazard: to venture, to take the chance of. | n. risk’er, one who risks. | adj. risk’y, dangerous: venturesome. | run a risk, to incur hazard. (0)

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