DANGEROUS in a Sentence

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Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous.

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 Meanings and Examples of DANGEROUS
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dangerous
 a.  full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She wants to, but Pa says he's too dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  And when that gets a bit dangerous, I go to Nassau where these same Union patriots have brought powder and shells and hoop skirts for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  She was embarrassed, too, that Rhett should know it was dangerous for Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Scarlett seemed the less dangerous of the two, so Prissy clutched at the sides of the wagon and remained where she was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Although he was a prisoner and the Yankees were in the next room, it came to her suddenly that Rhett Butler was a dangerous man to run afoul of.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  She had seen Southern men, soft voiced and dangerous in the days before the war, reckless and hard in the last despairing days of the fighting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  Atlanta was crowded with them and still they came by the hundreds, lazy and dangerous as a result of the new doctrines being taught them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  The first is that it's dangerous for you to drive alone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  Behind her and her husband were the four Tarleton girls, their red locks indecorous notes in the solemn occasion, their russet eyes still looking like the eyes of vital young animals, spirited and dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  Frank, full of the pride of new fatherhood, summoned up courage enough to forbid Scarlett leaving the house while conditions were so dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  "Oh, I'm not dangerous," he said in the same key.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  To a less illuminated intelligence Mrs. Bart's counsels might have been dangerous; but Lily understood that beauty is only the raw material of conquest, and that to convert it into success other arts are required.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
16  Certain breeds are more dangerous than others.
17  The police have hauled Peter before the court on a charge of dangerous driving.
18  Police have brought a charge of dangerous driving against the man.
19  Concerned parents have complained about the dangerous playground.
20  Such laws could protect the consumer from harmful or dangerous remedies.
21  We are using up our natural resources and at the same time polluting our environment with dangerous chemicals.
22  It's dangerous to overtake at a corner.
23  It is dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.
24  Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
25  The climber, get past the footprints are unfortunately, lost to forward direction is very dangerous.
26  It is dangerous to drive in a thick fog.
27  The drug is not harmful per se, but is dangerous when taken with alcohol.
28  The wall is leaning at such a dangerous angle that it wouldn't take much effort to push it over.
29  Either of the plans is equally dangerous.
30  The wings of the plane have iced up and it is too dangerous to fly.