How to Use danger in a Sentence
danger
noun- She was fearless in the face of danger.
- I was unaware of the danger that lay ahead.
- It's important to teach your children about the dangers of smoking.
- There's a danger that your apology will be taken as a sign of weakness.
- The danger is that we'll become careless as the process becomes more familiar.
- There's less danger that you'll lose your money if you have a wide variety of investments.
- Here is a list of possible dangers associated with the procedure.
- We believe it poses a serious danger to our national security.
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There's danger along the way, as she'll be forced to battle her way to the lost rebel.
— Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023 -
Last year in Pakistan, dangers piled one atop the other.
— Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023 -
The song is led by Lucy Dacus, who sings of danger and anxiety on the track.
— Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023 -
That time, the fire department had knocked at their door to warn them the danger was getting close.
— Alaa Elassar, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023 -
The ceiling crumbled over a weekend and nobody was hurt, but the dangers were clear.
— Megan Specia, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023 -
The shooting doesn’t seem to have been random, police said, and there’s no danger to the public.
— Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023 -
The risk, the danger of going on the street and buying a Percocet pill that could be laced with fentanyl.
— CBS News, 30 July 2023 -
In the days leading to the storm, state leaders warned about its potential dangers.
— John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023 -
The smugglers have used two routes to get the migrants to Malaysia and both come with extreme dangers that have gotten many killed.
— Britt Clennett, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2024 -
That enemy may not be real, but the danger of those lies is.
— Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023 -
Yet Navarro said the first sign of danger was not his phone buzzing, but the blazespreading below.
— Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024 -
Backup tight end Brevin Jordan is a danger in his own right.
— The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024 -
But there is a danger that both parties are misunderstanding the lessons of the 1970s.
— Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 -
This danger is familiar to divers going from low depths back to the surface.
— Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023 -
The plant is not in immediate danger, the agency added.
— Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023 -
And the dangers of mixing AI and health care are still coming into focus.
— Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023 -
Small fires ignite as Santa Ana winds raise the danger of quick-moving flames.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023 -
At the same time, there is an elusive sense of danger there, with the threatening sea changing with the wind and tide, and storms always brewing.
— Annika Pham, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023 -
The President may also order any area of the Navajo Nation to be closed for entry by the public due to the dangers of the fire.
— Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023 -
Changing the litter box daily ensures that the oocysts will not become a danger.
— Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024 -
Upstaging is always a danger in any story in which the main character is a reactive chameleon.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024 -
Milwaukee police send that type of alert to news outlets to inform the public about a missing person who may be in immediate danger.
— Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
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