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Example sentences for "endangered"

Lexicographically close words:
encyclopedic; encyclopedists; encysted; end; endanger; endangering; endangers; endarteritis; ende; endear
  1. His life was several times endangered by crossing deep waters.

  2. He reports much rain in October, and several times his life was endangered crossing high waters.

  3. His operations menaced and endangered the existence of the colony.

  4. They were never a majority in Massachusetts, but they had sufficient power to impair the strength of the state, and in 1862 under the style of the People's Party, they endangered the election of Governor Andrew.

  5. You have endangered your life for my sake.

  6. One could see how the fate of his endangered comrades went to the heart of this iron man.

  7. The ship was settling fast, and it became necessary to quit her, and haul off the schooner; that she might not be endangered by the vortex of the sinking vessel.

  8. He would expose the lives of thousands to obtain such a compliment to his hateful vanity and excessive pride; but he would not take a step that endangered his personal safety, though it might eventually lead him to the possession of a crown.

  9. There is at least one part of the nation yet untainted, a part which deserves the utmost care of the legislature, and which must be endangered by a law like this before us.

  10. This request, sir, is at this time particularly expedient, when the continent is in confusion, and the territories of Hanover are endangered by the approach of the French forces.

  11. Sumner was feared and hated principally because his presence in Congress endangered the institution of slavery.

  12. For that we have sacrificed our agriculture and endangered the safety of our Empire.

  13. And our agriculture is to be ruined and the safety and honour of the Empire are to be endangered that a few landlords, coal-owners, and moneylenders may wax fat upon the vitals of the nation.

  14. Germans by the Lithuanians had endangered not only the existence of the Order of the Sword but even the church of Livonia.

  15. Thus the interests of Protestantism were endangered in presence of the unbelief within her own borders and the machinations of the ultramontane Catholics without.

  16. Set free by the Rump Parliament, he became colonel in Cromwell’s army, but was banished the country when it was found that the spread of radicalism endangered discipline.

  17. What a crushing argument would this have proved against those who dreaded that the rights of the States would be endangered by the Constitution!

  18. Meanwhile the settlement of the new Territory will proceed without serious interruption, and its progress and prosperity will not be endangered or retarded by violent political struggles.

  19. It has alienated and estranged the people of the sister States from each other, and has even seriously endangered the very existence of the Union.

  20. They will resolve that the Constitution and the Union shall not be endangered by rash counsels, knowing that should "the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken .

  21. It endangered his communications, it endangered his base, it endangered his divisions that occupied Boston.

  22. At the same time the growing excitement of Catesby endangered the secret.

  23. When she turned to face the turbulent stream the rocking timbers coming down with the released water almost filled the pool before the endangered girl.

  24. He threw a glass ball so far to one side that to have shot at it would have endangered the spectators, and the Indian girl dropped the muzzle of her rifle and shook her head.

  25. General Sherman's violent temper greatly endangered his reputation toward the close of the war, and he came near sacrificing, in an evil hour of passion, all that he had won before.

  26. Sherman then argued that the positions in Kentucky ought to be abandoned, and the army no longer endangered by being scattered.

  27. Rousseau galloped to the endangered part of the line and rallied the troops in retreat, beating and cursing them into line, and actually breaking his sword over the head of one demoralized individual, who was thus brought to a stand.

  28. He held that the rapidly increasing free black population endangered the peace of the State and impaired in a large section the value of slave property.

  29. The trade of British merchantmen was being endangered and it was important to remove the scruples of the religious slaveholder.

  30. In their hearts they would even feel it an intervention of Providence, a retribution--had not Bosinney endangered their two most priceless possessions, the pocket and the hearth?

  31. Willie stopped so suddenly that he endangered his equilibrium, although that isn't how he would have said it.

  32. The Girl took it, tremblingly, then, suddenly dropping it, clasped the Angel in her arms and placed upon her unresponsive lips a kiss for which a mere man would have endangered his immortal soul.

  33. The entire sea in that vicinity is, in fact, endangered by floating mines and by torpedoes that have not sunk.

  34. Off the English coast it is further endangered in an increasing degree through German mines which have been laid against enemy naval forces.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endangered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.