How to Use terroristic in a Sentence

terroristic

adjective
  • Deputies charged the student, who was not named, with a felony count of terroristic threats.
    Matt Bruce, ajc, 18 Dec. 2021
  • The student was charged with a felony, but the case was dropped due to an Alabama law on terroristic threats.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • He's come out and proclaimed a million times on TV that this was not a terroristic act.
    Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • The 16-year-old is charged with making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony.
    Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Michael Valadez, 39, faces a felony charge of making a terroristic threat.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
  • Four of the defendants were charged with terroristic threats and acts and could serve up to 10 years in jail if convicted.
    Kim Jarrett, Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Kieston Allen, 20, is also in custody and faces a charge of making a terroristic threat.
    Dallas News, 21 May 2020
  • Price was booked on a first-degree felony charge of making terroristic threats.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
  • She is charged with making a terroristic threat, which is a Class C felony in Alabama.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • He was arrested and charged with one count of making a terroristic threat.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 16 May 2022
  • The three minors were charged with suspicion of making terroristic threats, which is a class 3 felony.
    Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The source here is Tehran — the head of the terrible and murderous and terroristic octopus.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Moreover, if the black bloc is terroristic, then so is the aftermath of some major sporting events.
    Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 2 June 2020
  • Quartavius Mender was booked into the Fulton jail last week on 23 charges of making terroristic threats, records show.
    Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 3 June 2022
  • He initially had been charged with a felony count of making terroristic threats.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
  • No device was found, and the police later arrested a man on a charge of making a terroristic threat.
    Dave Montgomery, Manny Fernandez and Matthew Haag, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The teen is facing a felony charge of terroristic threatening.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Choochongkol has been charged with making a terroristic threat, a third degree felony.
    Alexandro Luna, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The boy who the police say wrote the Twitter post was arrested and charged as a juvenile with making terroristic threats.
    Julie Bosman, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Dykstra, who is charged with making terroristic threats and drug offenses, is due back in court next month.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • He has been charged with making terroristic threats and remains in police custody at this time.
    CBS News, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The suspect was arrested around 7:05 p.m. and police say he has been charged with capitol murder as well as three counts of a terroristic act.
    Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Theoretically, a terroristic act against an LDS church would be treated the same as the same act against a mosque.
    Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • All three face third-degree felony terroristic threat charges.
    Stephen English, star-telegram, 5 Mar. 2018
  • She was charged with making a terroristic threat, according to the police.
    Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Rob Moody said the suspect was charged in juvenile court with making terroristic threats.
    Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Brown also was charged with a felony count of making terroristic threats as a hate crime, and possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism, among other charges.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The teen, who is from Liberty Township, is charged with making terroristic threats, a third-degree felony.
    The Enquirer, 20 Dec. 2021
  • He was charged with terroristic threatening, but the charge was dismissed earlier this year, Steele said.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Couch was arrested at that home in Gray, Kentucky, back on Feb. 8 on a charge of terroristic threatening, 3rd degree.
    Cristian Benavides, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024

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