How to Use threatening in a Sentence

threatening

adjective
  • Apart from the threatening, there has been the bizarre.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The firm might send the firm that hired you a threatening letter.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
  • But the most threatening change, by far, is a warmer world.
    — Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Some of the threatening emails have been turned over to police.
    — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • This goes for the common cold, the flu and viruses that could be life-threatening.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2022
  • At first, the water that had seeped over the edge of the Ahr River hadn’t seemed so threatening.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • But there’s also the threatening nature that plays out in the background, on the news.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 20 June 2023
  • And then the threatening emails, texts, tweets and DMs began.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The teen’s injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.
    — Jeff Weiner, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The debt grew more threatening within two years as the fracking boom turn to a bust in 2015.
    — CBS News, 29 June 2020
  • The office said that the video showed Munoz emerge from a house and brandish the knife in a threatening manner.
    — Fox News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • But Reyes, however, could be the more threatening bat of the two.
    — Matt Martell, SI.com, 31 July 2019
  • But an equal looks [a shark] in the eye and swims toward them, acting in a threatening way.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2021
  • Not talking about it can make the event even more threatening in your child’s mind.
    — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • After the boy drove the car, and the girls left the scene, a group of boys walking on the street approached the boy and his friend in a threatening manner.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 June 2021
  • But that debt grew more threatening within two years as the fracking boom turn to a bust in 2015.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2020
  • Trump aides were split over whether the R.N.C. should have received the threatening letter at all.
    — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Trump aides were split over whether the RNC should have received the threatening letter at all.
    — Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • At some point, the tenor of calls became more ominous and threatening.
    — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The blaze, which broke out Wednesday, appeared to be the most threatening of those burning statewide.
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2021
  • When Thor spreads his wings in a threatening manner, our cats walk away.
    — Chris Kastner, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Even in the twilight of his career, though, Houston makes the Ravens’ pass rush more threatening.
    — Daniel Oyefusi, baltimoresun.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The sheer scale of the wilderness felt threatening; the only way in or out was on horseback through trackless marsh.
    — Erin Craig, National Geographic, 28 July 2020
  • That is easy to miss with daily tidal change of more than a foot and the more threatening storm surge and other flood factors.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • By Monday morning, the winds had shifted and the fires seemed less threatening.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Sayoc sent the threatening packages in the run-up to the 2018 midterm election, spreading fear across the country.
    — oregonlive.com, 24 July 2019
  • Ana was something that made us -- made me -- less threatening.
    — John Norris, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Powell threw the ratchet strap at one of the officers and made threatening statements, the GBI said.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Brower was arrested and transported to Troop E where he was processed and charged with first-degree threatening display of a firearm and second-degree breach of peace.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
  • According to The Athletic, Donald received threatening emails from Anwar five years ago and has since sent him packages and gifts while stalking him and threatening the life of his 3-year-old son.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025

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