How to Use threshold in a Sentence

threshold

noun

• He stepped across the threshold.
• If your income rises above a certain threshold, your tax rate also rises.
• And one, two, three: the girls each step across the threshold.
  — Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• On the 23rd, the Sun enters Libra and brings us across the threshold of the equinox.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
• Yet even on the threshold of growth, a question lingers.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2023
• The next 10 days are forecast to stay above that threshold.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 7 Sep. 2024
• The threshold for the second debate was higher than for the first.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
• More than a third of renter households meet that threshold.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• Last fall, the Supreme Court refused to hear a legal challenge to the 2020 state law that raised the threshold.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• And in 2003, the Angels crossed the three million threshold in attendance for the first time.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The record high for 2024 marks a threshold scientists had hoped for years to avoid.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
• In fact, 2024 was the first calendar year warm enough to cross that threshold.
  — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
• The threshold for getting people to leave their house — that bar is high.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Once a driver is in the cockpit — a student might weigh around 100 pounds — teams place weights in the car to meet the threshold.
  — Bernard Mokam Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Near the threshold of the kitchen, there's also a small breakfast nook to have coffee or eat.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 12 Sep. 2023
• In this study, that threshold occurred at about 15 mph.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2024
• For the past decade, the world has sought to avoid crossing this dangerous threshold.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
• One of the few people who has been allowed to cross that threshold is her fiancé.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023
• In light of that, Perine should go over that threshold on Sunday.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2022
• All but one racial or ethnic group has now surpassed the 80% threshold.
  — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2022
• Mersal added that the threshold needn’t be happy—or sad.
  — Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
• And unless Congress changes the law before then, the $600 threshold is set to kick in the following year.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
• The spooky fit will have trick-or-treaters take paws before crossing your threshold.
  — Irene Richardson, Country Living, 20 Oct. 2022
• There was one day in which prices moved by more than 10%, a typical threshold.
  — M. Todd Henderson, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• But while one bond had 54% of voter support, both elections failed to reach the two-thirds threshold.
  — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 9 Jan. 2024
• Jung, it could be argued, has the ability to cross all three thresholds.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
• That threshold is even higher, at least for me, where Trump is concerned.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• The income threshold has long been a sticking point between the two parties.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• Most of the issues raised in the proclamation for Special Session A simply do not meet that threshold.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
• House members already introduced a bill this month to raise the threshold for a ballot measure to pass from a simple majority to 60%.
  — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 30 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025