Putting up

Usage examples of risking.

He, too, was risking censure, even dismissal, if a crime resulted from negligence even by his subordinate, Newry.

Spacedep is doing its job, risking lives to rescue you from your folly.

At the very least she could be accused of allowing ruinous damage to Fleet property, and risking the capture of a major hull.

We can't take the power to do more than your quarters, without risking exposure, but we can do that much.

And until that time, I'm not risking the government's remaining wit-i.

Three more times she had to threaten him to keep him from diving in and trying to save one of the Zombies by risking his own life.

He would only be risking her anger if he were afraid of something even worse—like a threat to her position at the clinic, something that would take her away and end his supply of Seductron-B4.

Fear coiled at a deeper level still, shouting that she was risking two living humans for a shellperson who could have died long ago.

If there are detection devices out there I'm risking having another force come boiling after me, so I'm keeping thrusters ready to run back toward Cridi if necessary.

The team was risking censure and worse by CenCom, and Maxwell-Corey in particular, by ignoring their orders, and yet they couldn't stay off-line forever.

FT&T was not risking its Callisto Prime, and her station crew benefited.

Jeff, risking his life in a little scout vessel, made a visual contact with the alien spaceship.

We got a great fee for risking skin and symbiont on Opal but Brendan then ran through some figures for her so that she realized the idea was feasible.

She owed him a lot for risking his own neck taking her out at all in the state she'd been in.

I'm not risking my wits on black until the last possible moment," she said and, gesturing imperiously to the two carrying the carton, she started from the cave.