Sentence examples for threatening from high-quality English sources.

• In fact it seems that it is more threatening.

• Barr has been threatening legal action against California.

• “We know about 10 per cent of 999 calls are probably life-threatening.”

• Psychiatric resources remain largely devoted to preventing ailments from threatening social stability.

• Russell, 45, is accused of threatening a different woman who had sued Mr.

• Boonin is opposed to banning hate speech because it is hateful not because it is threatening.

• Nor comments which are defamatory, malicious, threatening, false, misleading, offensive or abusive.

• They’re threatening to pack the court, they were already threatening to pack the court.”

Use threatening in a sentence.

• The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed then to fall, threatening and dark, on both the mother and the child.

• Next, only the threatening stimulus was presented to participants, followed by a combination of both the scary and neutral shapes or sounds.

• That alone marks them out as threatening enough to a twisted mind – so threatening that it turns them into a target for terrorism.

• He filmed Amy Cooper (no relation) threatening to call the police and tell them "there's an African-American man threatening my life".

• “That’s perfectly healthy if the danger is actually a life-threatening situation, but on the whole this will not actually be life-threatening.”

• But the behaviour can be more extreme, such as threatening to starve their partner, threatening to take her children away from her or even harming her.

• There's been a lot of instigation to violence and people threatening violence, people threatening to kill the vice president, George Soros, all kinds of different boogeymen and women.

• A key concern about the bill as drafted was over a section which creates a new crime of "stirring up hatred" against protected groups - defined as "behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, or communicating threatening or abusive material to another person".

threatening sentence examples

• By most accounts, the shift happened after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, after which authorities quickly moved to monitor and curtail dissident activity throughout the US, significantly blurring the line between threatening and less-threatening individuals and organizations.

• Later on Sunday, the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman cited sources “familiar with his thinking” when she said Trump was backing off his threat to create a new party, after it was “gently pointed out to him” that “threatening a third party while simultaneously threatening primaries makes no sense”.

• The video showed her telling Mr Cooper that she would tell police "there's an African-American man threatening my life" before she is seen calling emergency services in a distressed tone to say an "African American man" was "threatening me and my dog" and asked dispatchers to "please send the cops immediately!"

• It also shows a litany of vicious, violent behavior presented with a comedic reserve—a male pedestrian climbing on a car and threatening a female driver, one male driver threatening another with a sledgehammer, another threatening another with an axe, several fistfights, and even several shootings.