RISKY in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for RISKY, such as:

1. After that, it will be too risky.
2. Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.
3. He is well aware how risky this investment is.
4. Shares are a relatively risky asset, it's not good for common seniors holding.
5. The other main liability is debt, which many banks used to finance risky investments, leading to the financial crisis.

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 Meanings and Examples of RISKY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
risky
 a.  involving risk or danger; hazardous
Classic Sentence:
1  After that, it will be too risky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  She knew it would be risky business sending Pork south to buy clothes, when the horse might be captured by either Yankees or Confederates.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  I am no mortal, if the risky devils haven't swam down upon the very pitch, and, as bad luck would have it, they have hit the head of the island.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
Example Sentence:
1  The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
2  Buying a second-hand car can be a risky business.
3  Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.
4  He is well aware how risky this investment is.
5  I'm not sure which is more implausible, the notion that people would ever get blasé about a 40-foot-high, formerly extinct reptile or that a theme park would try to boost its revenue in such a wildly risky way.
6  Critics are pointing to a new Enbridge oil spill of roughly 1,200 barrels in Wisconsin as another sign that a new conduit for Albertan bitumen is too risky for British Columbia.
7  Japan's central bank and its main government pension fund said Friday they would pump trillions more yen into the country's sputtering economy, taking a risky new stimulus tack that jolted global markets.
8  The other main liability is debt, which many banks used to finance risky investments, leading to the financial crisis.
9  Shares are a relatively risky asset, it's not good for common seniors holding.