He opened up his house for the licensure of Richard Cameron, when such a meeting jeopardized his life, family, and property.
Once a ship was cast upon the rocks, and the lives of the passengers were jeopardizedsimply because the compass varied, it was said, a millionth part of an inch.
To save her life I had jeopardized my plans; to follow her here I had jeopardized them again.
I had jeopardized the chance of an empire for a woman.
You jeopardized all that you hoped for, and you never whined nor lost sleep.
He valued, too, with a boy's stalwart vanity, his reputation for great learning, and he would not have lightly jeopardized it did he not esteem the crisis momentous.
Zabulun and Naphtali were a people who jeopardized their lives unto the death upon the high places of the field).
The dogman knew well that he jeopardized his life in either half of the journey; no little in going, and tenfold as much in returning through the snows of night.
They professed to believe that the faith was strong enough to work miracles--to change the heart of man, and yet that it would be jeopardized by the calculations of astronomers.
Was the morality which the Church preached likely to be jeopardized because Ruth was a tricky young woman?
Feeling that to admit the good faith of Nationalists jeopardized their own political cause, they belittled what in the interests of the common weal it would have been wise even to over-value.
I wondered whether you had remained safely here, or whether you had again jeopardized your cause by going so openly into the streets.
No, but by my faith, your interference may have jeopardized the lady's happiness.
It was resolved that the great bell--the one whose casting had been jeopardized through the timidity of the ill-starred workman--should be rung upon the entrance of the bier into the cathedral.
Meantime, the whole host of negroes, as if inflamed at the sight of their jeopardized captain, impended in one sooty avalanche over the bulwarks.
You have seriously jeopardized my chances here in Chicago.
He believed there was an English fleet at Ferrol; the weather was bitter, and his health was jeopardized by the severity of the cold; moreover, disquieting letters arrived, and he determined that this game was not worth the candle.
This plan had been jeopardized by the rashness of Lefebvre.
The development of a further success is being jeopardized by the instability and moral weakness of certain detachments.
There is unity between the several parts; and none of them can be jeopardized without involving the ruin of the others.
If it finds the spot, it makes its way in and resumes the work of eating; but its future is jeopardized from this time forward, for the game, now perhaps tackled at inopportune points, is liable to go bad.
Prince Otondo did not propose to have his interests jeopardized by precipitation or undue hazard.
Near-by a wardrobe, equally remote if more decrepit, leaned against the wall to maintain the balance jeopardized by a missing foot.
It strikes me that a scheme so clever as all this would scarcely be jeopardized by such an absurdity.
It has jeopardized our food-supply, and is fraught with the gravest peril not only to our handicrafts but also to our national industry--agriculture.
The benevolent despot himself may discard his benevolence overnight, and the fate of an empire may be jeopardized by the monarch's infatuation for a woman or by an upset in his digestion.
Peace is jeopardized by the few and not by the many.
If the issue of the War could be regarded as seriously jeopardized by England's intervention, it was practically lost for the Central Empires when the United States stepped in.
Lord John Russell had to reconcile the various and immense interests of England, jeopardized by the war, with his sincere love of human liberty.
At every step this noble people vindicates and asserts the vitality of self-government, continually jeopardized by the inexhaustible errors of the policy followed by the master-spirits in the administration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jeopardized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cornered; stake; threatened
