Examples of 'empty threat' in a sentence

Meaning of "empty threat"

empty threat - An empty threat refers to a statement or warning that is not meant to be carried out or has no actual power or substance behind it
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  • A threat made with no chance of being carried out.

How to use "empty threat" in a sentence

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empty threat
Which may or may not be an empty threat.
Your empty threat reminds me.
Which means that you are an empty threat.
That was an empty threat he made.
I was not talking about an empty threat.
It was an empty threat then.
This was just supposed to be an empty threat.
Nuclear war is an empty threat in a covert war of light and dark.
I love the sound of an empty threat.
An empty threat.
This must not be an empty threat.
I know an empty threat when I see one.
This is not intended to be an empty threat.
Your empty threat reminds me that there is something I never shared with you.
I knew that it was not an empty threat.

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Don't think an empty threat is going to cow me.
But so far it had been an empty threat.
It 's an empty threat and we are not dealing with that.
Do not think for a minute that was an empty threat he made.
I heard you tried that empty threat with Louis, but it 's not gonna work with me.
I am sure it was just an empty threat.
It 's an empty threat on the right.
I am not even an empty threat.
It was an empty threat then . But now it 's real.
This was not an empty threat.
So make your empty threat or… Unfortunately, there's still time on the clock.
It feels like an empty threat.
So make your empty threat or… She didn't send me.
We were making an empty threat.
An empty threat then, is not it?
So not an empty threat.
This operation is too important to international security to allow for an empty threat.
This is an empty threat.
But for the last five months, it was just an empty threat.
This is no empty threat.
I wanted your cooperation. We were making an empty threat.
So Make your empty threat or.
You do not know cops If you think that 's an empty threat.
And that was not no empty threat neither, nigga.
I just do not believe it, so I can only see the empty threat.
I also felt that this was an empty threat and didn't buckle.
With cynical light-mindedness, Pojalat dismisses the new regulations as an empty threat.
Death is an empty threat.
Zola, Jessica and Jarrett all say it was clearly an empty threat.
It 's the most empty threat there is.
Then you would have me around Empty threat.
Or have you realized it 's an empty threat with no real power to control you?
They have figured out it 's an empty threat.
And yet, it's an empty threat at the moment, as no rain falls.
I thought it was an empty threat.

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