Examples of 'threaten' in a sentence
Meaning of "threaten"
Threaten is a verb that means to communicate intentions of causing harm or damage to someone or something. It is often used in the context of expressing a warning or a danger, such as threatening someone with physical harm or threatening to expose someone's secrets.
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- To make a threat against someone; to use threats. He threatened me with a knife.
- To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
- He threatened me with a knife.
- To menace, or be dangerous.
How to use "threaten" in a sentence
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You can not threaten me on my own planet.
Tell it to whoever sent you here to threaten me.
They are going to threaten you with jail time.
They threaten us by saying we will be nuclear targets.
Such polarization may threaten social cohesion.
We threaten to go to the cops if he does not do what we want.
But do not ever threaten me or my firm again.
I am so humiliated that my own children would threaten me.
Can not threaten him with anything.
Our jobs are not his to threaten us with.
You can threaten me all you want.
He truly believes he did not threaten your daughter.
This can threaten our sense of control.
Toxic chemicals in products threaten human health.
You could threaten to torch the place.
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There is no dealing with those who threaten us.
Do not you dare threaten me with violence.
I wish he would done more than threaten him.
These people who threaten security are crumbling.
I will go to her shop and threaten her.
I pay them or threaten them to keep quiet.
Do not stand there in my underwear and threaten me.
Bishop could threaten something like that.
I am afraid some villain might threaten her.
Your teeth threaten to shake from head.
There is nothing you can threaten me with.
They can threaten all they want.
I got nothing left for you to threaten.
Future outbreaks threaten the eradication goal.
You are not the first man to threaten me.
You can not threaten this guy.
You should know better than to threaten me.
He would also threaten her with a knife.
And your father did not threaten him.
You can not threaten me like that.
My kid told you he did not threaten her.
It would threaten our entire existence here.
Otherwise the father will threaten to commitsuicide.
Never threaten unless you are ready to deliver.
People heard him threaten the victim.
Drugs threaten the very existence of our societies.
I will not let him threaten my daughter.
Do not threaten me again with a fake gun.
Solar energy does not threaten the environment.
We do not threaten with a subpoena unless he refuses to testify.
Do not you ever threaten her again.
Create or threaten to create technical barriers to international trade.
They are gonna try to threaten a federal official.
We threaten to release it over some densely populated cities.
And if you ever threaten my family again.
