DANGEROUS in a Sentence

Learn DANGEROUS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
393 example sentences for DANGEROUS, such as:
1. All dlays are dangerous in war.
2. Too much experience is a dangerous thing.
3. It is dangerous to swim beyond this mark.
4. She wants to, but Pa says he's too dangerous.
5. The flashing lights denote dangerous roads ahead.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DANGEROUS
dangerous
 a.  causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
 a.  involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She wants to, but Pa says he's too dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Moving from group to group, drawling in their soft voices, they were as handsome as blooded stallions and as dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  And when that gets a bit dangerous, I go to Nassau where these same Union patriots have brought powder and shells and hoop skirts for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  She was embarrassed, too, that Rhett should know it was dangerous for Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Scarlett seemed the less dangerous of the two, so Prissy clutched at the sides of the wagon and remained where she was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Although he was a prisoner and the Yankees were in the next room, it came to her suddenly that Rhett Butler was a dangerous man to run afoul of.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  She had seen Southern men, soft voiced and dangerous in the days before the war, reckless and hard in the last despairing days of the fighting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  Atlanta was crowded with them and still they came by the hundreds, lazy and dangerous as a result of the new doctrines being taught them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  The first is that it's dangerous for you to drive alone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  Behind her and her husband were the four Tarleton girls, their red locks indecorous notes in the solemn occasion, their russet eyes still looking like the eyes of vital young animals, spirited and dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
12  Frank, full of the pride of new fatherhood, summoned up courage enough to forbid Scarlett leaving the house while conditions were so dangerous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  "Oh, I'm not dangerous," he said in the same key.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  To a less illuminated intelligence Mrs. Bart's counsels might have been dangerous; but Lily understood that beauty is only the raw material of conquest, and that to convert it into success other arts are required.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  The flashing lights denote dangerous roads ahead.
2  She walked home by herself, although she knew that it was dangerous.
3  A dangerous amount of radioactivity was released into the environment last month.
4  Analysis of the wine showed that it contained dangerous additives.
5  He was not afraid to measure himself against a much more dangerous animal.
6  You shouldn't fool around with dangerous chemicals.
7  Too much experience is a dangerous thing.
8  I've never played ice hockey - it's far too dangerous.
9  In those days, the trip across country was a dangerous undertaking.
10  All dlays are dangerous in war.
11  I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.
12  Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.
13  Many doctors believe that boxing is too dangerous and should be banned.
14  It is dangerous to swim beyond this mark.
15  Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.