Once he started wandering aimlessly, a trainee risked disturbing the gods at play.

In other words, to confront the reality of racial influence on death sentences would risk disturbing the system too much.

Even if he had wanted to face the mess, Kirk knew he could not risk disturbing the evidence.

In truth, Dr Daruwalla thought, no one wanted to risk disturbing the spider.

The ships looked empty, but they'd probably have watchmen on board; I wasn't going to risk disturbing them, though.

I'd suggest you risk disturbing a few more of your shipmates, though.

Bistro tables wear red and white, and are so close you risk disturbing the entire house should you need the loo midway through your meal.

Nobody really slept, but nobody really wanted to talk and risk disturbing the others, either.

Sweat seemed to stream on his forehead; he was afraid of it blinding his eyes, but dared not risk disturbing his aim to wipe it off.

It is an extremely sensitive sea, and we should not risk disturbing the balance there.