HAZARD in a Sentence

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But lacking money, and fearing that on that account his soldiers might desert him, he was forced to hazard an engagement.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAZARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hazard
 n.  danger; risk
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  That hazard shall not be thine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
2  Every thought filled with apprehension for the previous treasure he had concealed in the cavern, the young man started to his feet, totally regardless of the hazard he incurred by such an exposure.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  During the rapid movement from the blockhouse, and until the party was deeply buried in the forest, each individual was too much interested in the escape to hazard a word even in whispers.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
4  Heyward had too recently witnessed a frightful instance of the prompt punishments of the people into whose hands he had fallen to hazard an exposure by any officious boldness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
5  He was allowed to proceed to the close, the Indians respecting his imaginary infirmity, and Duncan too glad of the delay to hazard the slightest interruption.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
6  In this dilemma, with little or no time for reflection, he suddenly determined to cloak his invaluable friend, at any or every hazard to himself.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
7  I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Mrs. Dashwood feared to hazard any remark, and ventured not to offer consolation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
9  My good Handel, is it not obvious that with Newgate in the next street, there must be far greater hazard in your breaking your mind to him and making him reckless, here, than elsewhere.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLI
10  We agreed that his remaining many days in his present hazard was not to be thought of.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIII
11  Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  Such parts of his dress as the Jew had laid aside on the preceding evening, were disposed carefully around his person, as if to prevent the hazard of their being carried off during his slumbers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to stake.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  He frowned, and getting up, went over to the book-case and took out a volume at hazard.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  But lacking money, and fearing that on that account his soldiers might desert him, he was forced to hazard an engagement.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  They have not used this article before, but they are willing to hazard a try.
2  Long trailing flexes are a serious trip hazard.
3  Polluted water sources are a hazard to wildlife.
4  If I might hazard a guess, I'd say she was about thirty.
5  I wouldn't like to hazard a guess.
6  Well, we can hazard a guess at the answer.
7  Growing levels of pollution represent a serious health hazard to the local population.
8  He put his life in hazard to save me.
9  And across Baghdad there are hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of rubbish, and this is proving to be an increasingly serious health hazard.
10  Across Baghdad there are hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of rubbish, and this is proving to be an increasingly serious health hazard.
11  The brave man hazards his life, but not his conscience.
12  Production of these chemicals poses serious environmental hazards.
13  Everybody is aware of the hazards of smoking.
14  The government was slow to inform the public about the health hazards of lead in petrol.
15  Toxicologists attempt to identify and understand toxic hazards.