How to Use threatening in a Sentence

threatening

adjective

• The firm might send the firm that hired you a threatening letter.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Powell threw the ratchet strap at one of the officers and made threatening statements, the GBI said.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 8 Oct. 2022
• The Biden-Xi meeting has put the two countries on a less threatening trajectory in the short term.
  — Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2023
• And what’s more threatening to the status quo than a visionary?
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• The more players who can score, the more threatening and unpredictable a team becomes.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• As hurricanes go, this is not the most threatening storm the Sunshine State has seen in recent years.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2024
• This is a whole-body response to an allergen and can be life-threatening.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 25 Apr. 2022
• What makes such public displays of Black male love such as these so striking and, to some, so very threatening?
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• Wallace is a very strong contender, but there's one chef who is a tad more threatening to our Houston fave.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 5 May 2022
• She got hurt all over her body and is in a threatening situation.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• The second half was more of the same, although Orlando City looked more threatening than Cruz Azul.
  — Kyle Foley, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
• On their own, the true believers aren't very threatening.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
• As the game wound down, Denmark became more threatening.
  — Kevin Draper Ben Shpigel Victor Mather James Wagner Natalie Alcoba Victor Mather Andrew Das Andrew Das The New York Times Ben Shpigel Ben Shpigel Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• There are a lot of really smart people that challenge you on a day-to-day basis, in a non-threatening way.
  — Yadi Rodriguez, cleveland, 26 June 2022
• The same area where several of the threatening calls to Melissa's little sister were made.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Some of them live in Hunters View, a hilltop formerly known as West Point, and some who came from around the city to work under heavy threatening skies.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2023
• The latest on a new wildfire near Colfax that’s threatening homes.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2021
• After a prolonged and threatening interrogation, the janitor's teenage son, Skip, confesses and is taken out of town, while mobs gather, unhampered by law enforcement.
  — arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024
• Threatening language or messages with poor grammar: Scammers often use urgent or threatening language to pressure you into action.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024