Use risked in a sentence
Sentences ending with risked
- Is it possible that on account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, and my life, my life," he thought, "must be risked? [2]
- But perhaps she did not know how much she risked. [4]
Short sentences using risked
- You risked your life. [10]
More example sentences with the word risked in them
- I know that you risked your life to save my own. [9]
- He said he would not be in town; so I risked it and took my dinner instead of the stock. [5]
- The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger numbers than other men. [1]
- The calmness with which he risked his life for an onion or a water-bag would have done credit to a prince of buccaneers. [11]
- How many trees we climbed, what steep cliffs we scaled, through what crevices we squeezed to add a rare egg to our collection; nay, we even risked our limbs and necks! [10]
- The defiant lad was a noble fellow, after all, and risked his own chance in behalf of one who, if he escaped with him, threatened to bar the way in which, in youthful blindness, he hoped to find happiness. [10]
- He could not understand the attitude, for Tarboe would scarcely have risked the thing out of mere bravado. [11]
- He had nothing to lose but his life, and he had risked that before. [11]
- She turned to the new-comer, who found himself unexpectedly submitted to a test which he would never have risked of his own will. [6]
- To this day the Gippies of that regiment still alive do not understand why Seti should have stayed behind and risked his life to save a horse and bring him wounded back to his master. [11]
- Had he been sure that hers was estranged he would have dashed away again, after having revealed his whole soul to his father, and risked the ride into unknown regions to seek Moses. [10]
- Many there were stirred; every man that was a man was stirred, whether friend or foe; and Manchon risked his life again, good soul, for he wrote in the margin of the record in good plain letters these brave words: "Superba responsio! [5]
- When you were starving he risked his life--" Torn by anxiety for my friend, I dragged myself into the nearest cabin, and a man was fighting there in the half-light at the port. [9]
- Since coming to St. Saviour's he had been constant to one attraction, and he had not risked his chances with Zoe by response to the shy invitations of dark eyes, young and not so young, which met his own here and there in the parish. [11]
- The excitement was so great, however, that only a very few of them knew what they were saying, and fewer still knew that Dennis Doane had risked his life to save the man he had been stalking for weeks past. [11]
- It was that smile that angered her, that made her rebel against the advice he had to offer; that made her forget the insult he had risked at her hands by coming there. [9]
- No man had saved so many shipwrecked folk, none risked his life so often; and he had never had a serious accident. [11]
- At last he risked the lands, castle, and village which he possessed in Hersbruck as his wife's dower. [10]
- Would he have risked it, had he not been the most simpleminded of men? [11]
- It had been risked in many gigantic speculations (such as the Argentine), and it had been liable to collapse at any time if its central credit was doubted. [4]
- Even Jack Brinsmade rarely risked his dignity and reputation at an intellectual tilt. [9]
- The sanctity of private property is being menaced, demagogues are crying out from the house-tops and inciting people against the men who have made this country what it is, who have risked their fortunes and their careers for the present prosperity. [9]
- A hunter, and one of the noblest of them all, risked his life in the pursuit of your love. [10]
- That was the one man in all the parish that would ha' risked his neck to let me free. [11]
- The long strain of a long fight, in which he had risked much for which he had labored a life to gain, had told on him, and there were crow's-feet at the corners of, his eyes, and dark circles under them. [9]
- He was a nimble fellow, for he had risked the leap from the window, and then swung himself over the fence into the road. [10]
- His arm seemed made of steel; he valued his life no more than one of the plumes in his helmet, and risked it in battle as recklessly as he did his zechins at the gaming-table. [10]
- She risked her life to move Caesar's father to mercy toward the citizens, after they had openly declared against him and in favor of his rival Pescennius Niger. [10]
- He risked his life to get them. [11]
- He risked his life to do that--went right into the camp in face of levelled rifles, and sat down and begun to talk. [11]
- You risked your life for me--yes, for me. [11]
- He's risked his life for his friend, thinkin' of her that's dead an' gone, and a man's life is a man's life. [11]
- There was no joyous passion to redeem the situation for which Gaston had risked so much. [11]
- In their service he risked his skin and his life twenty times a year, and in their service had lost more horses than the money he had from them would buy. [2]
- With hurrying fingers he made the sign of the cross, a low: "Mary, pray for me," rose from his lips, then he shut his eyes and risked the leap. [10]
- As a rider he had taken many chances, and as an adventurer in Deception Pass he had unhesitatingly risked his life, but now he would run no preventable hazard of Bess's safety and happiness, and he was too keen not to see that hazard. [13]
- He remained, eyes hanging upon space for a moment, then he recollected himself and continued: "I became wiser; I never risked it again; but I loved the game always. [11]
- Yesterday Colonel Clark had stood alone, the enterprise for which he had risked all on the verge of failure. [9]
- At Actium he had risked Antony's favour to prevent his deserting Cleopatra after the battle, and then accompanied him in his flight. [10]
- Deserted by those for whom he risked his life! [11]
- Few noticed them; for which Dicky was thankful; and he risked discovery by coming nearer the circle. [11]
- He should fight for the woman who had risked all for him--just a common woman of the north, but it seemed good to lose his life for her; and she would be happy to die with him. [11]
- If he risked escaping from the camp now, he could not fail to be seen and stopped. [10]
- On his New England side he was cunning and calculating, always cautious, measuring his distance before he risked his stroke, as nicely as if he were throwing his lasso. [6]
- None of you can to-day call the home for which he has risked so much his own. [9]
- Why is he bitterly regretful, if he has yielded to a strong sense of self-preservation, and has not risked his life to save that of a fellow- creature? [1]
- Before the sap began to run again in the maples there was not a soul in Harrodstown who did not love her, and I truly believe that most of them would have risked their lives to do her bidding. [9]
- If he had been suffering from some deadly and contagious malady she would have risked her life to help him, without a thought that there was any wonderful heroism in such self-devotion. [6]
- Her life had been risked without due warrant. [11]
- And it was because you did not falter, because you risked all, that you gained me. [9]
- But it must be risked, and if you will fulfil the most ardent desire of a faithful heart--" "Gently, my little Wolf, gently," she interposed soothingly. [10]
- Less money might be risked in experiments upon the public, and more might be made by distributing good literature. [4]
- If you'd taken away his life, the cost would probably have been your own life; in giving him his life you only risked your own; you had a chance to save it. [11]
- The tyrant was astonished, and on asking the reason for their tears, received as answer from the impetuous Atossa, that the brave creature who had risked its own life to save its brother, reminded her of Bartja. [10]
- I risked everything, and I've lost everything by my own vanity. [11]
- Duty summoned him also, and what another risked for the King he would not fail to do for his friend. [10]
- She had risked all to save my life--reputation, friends, even myself, the one solace in her possible misery. [11]
- He could not afford to antagonize Byng; in any case, his heart was against doing so; though, like an Irishman, he had risked everything by his maladroit and ill-mannered attack a little while ago. [11]
- When you were about leaving Atlanta for the Atlantic coast, I was anxious, if not fearful; but feeling that you were the better judge, and remembering that "nothing risked, nothing gained," I did not interfere. [7]
- At its close a mingled feeling of relief and anxiety was felt by all; relief that their favorite companion had escaped so fearful a danger, anxiety for the brave young Lydian who had risked his life to save him. [10]
- It would be a foolhardy man who risked his life under the leaning, waiting avalanches of rock in that gigantic split. [13]
- Raleigh risked L 2,000 in the venture, and equipped a ship which bore his name, but which had ill luck. [4]
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