What is "risked"

Usage examples of "risked".

You certainly risked the indignities that they always heap on Inactives, in order to get away.

And she had even gone to the extreme of dyeing her gorgeous red hair, risked her safety on Earth's slideways and sleazy Aisles, bearded inspectors with purloined documentation and.

Querying the personnel files was against regulations, and even if she could get past the computer's security systems, she risked leaving a trace of her search.

Maybe not the FSP, thought Varian, kicking at the mud, but they'd need a larger gene pool or their community risked dangerous inbreeding that could wipe out all they had achieved.

Even if one of them had wanted to be friendly, they'd not have risked more trouble.

Except for that one almost - disastrous (and, in retrospect, funny) engagement to a brilliant and handsome older diplomat, she had never risked anything she could not afford to lose.

For the beauty of gold and gems others had risked life, superstition, and freedom.

They risked detection of their ship with every deviation from strict survival.

She had no need to play any of the games she might have risked at other levels and times.

Though some singers risked mind and body to cut enough for repeated visits to Maxim, she couldn't recall any desire to do so.

Not when he risked being found by the company corps, who might resent his appropriation of their vehicle.

The Cat's risked his neck to save us and I'm going to be grateful to him until I find a damned good reason not to be.

Actually, Kris thought as she took Mitford's own canteen to the nearby stream to fill it, Zainal, she and the others needn't have run so fast or risked broken bones to get here.

Now they risked themselves time and again to rescue unconscious or injured folk.

He and the other young dragonriders risked hideous death and many injuries to keep Thread from ravaging this one area of Pern that humans could survive in.