Examples of 'threatening' in a sentence
Meaning of "threatening"
Threaten is a verb that means to communicate an intention to harm or cause suffering to someone or something, typically to create fear or compel action, often used in contexts related to coercion, intimidation, or imminent danger
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- present participle of threaten
- Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
- Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
- An act of threatening; a threat.
How to use "threatening" in a sentence
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Threatening her would only make it worse.
I am not very threatening from down here.
Threatening me is not going to get me to hand you my weapon.
Right now they are threatening to revoke my license.
Threatening and violent in the fire drill.
Neighbors say he was threatening the female vic.
He is threatening to kill you and the kids.
The loss of a huge amount of farmland is threatening.
But they are threatening whoever works there.
Our new friends do not look threatening.
I am not sure threatening him was the way to go.
It is essential to reject blackmailing and threatening vocabulary.
You kept threatening me with the wisemen.
That does not constitute a threatening phone call.
I keep threatening to shave him one morning.
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I am going to leave a vaguely threatening note in their room.
They are threatening to close this place down.
Nothing will happen by your telephoning me or threatening me.
Threatening a police officer is an extremely serious offense.
They do not seem threatening as dots on a screen.
Threatening prisoners with rape and murder.
The neighbours are threatening to call the cops.
And threatening to derail the whole enterprise.
Surely you are not threatening an old friend.
Threatening to have my son raped and killed.
Ellen wolf was threatening to wreck his career.
Threatening victims and their loved ones.
The sponsors are threatening to rip up their contracts.
Threatening to sue everybody and their brother.
We traced the threatening call to his office.
Every electric shock is potentially life threatening.
Jeremy was threatening to destroy the new life.
They are not the ones threatening him.
Assaulting or threatening an officer or any other person.
Kinney receive strange messages threatening life.
She was threatening to blow the whistle on him.
But this is more like threatening him.
Now he is threatening to write that in the article.
There is something very threatening about you.
You were threatening the owner of that truck.
It was not very long ago you were threatening us.
You have been threatening that for years.
You do not have to get all threatening.
Dom is threatening to take away my medical license.
Nobody gets away with threatening my family.
The threatening text he sent to the victim.
My husband is already threatening to take my son away.
I am threatening to kill you unless you help me.
His parents got threatening phone calls.
I would not call that life threatening.
