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How to use threateningly in a sentence

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It is impossible to be sanguine about the state of international tension that hangs so threateningly over us.
He held the knife threateningly in his left hand, and drew his black ruby sword in his right.
His voice was cool and Andreus raised the lash again threateningly, but was ordered to lower it.
She could sit at her windowsill for hours recalling the way Damien's eyes had shined so darkly and threateningly and beautifully.
He suddenly leant threateningly over the child, eyebrows furrowed, eyes glittering menacingly.
She arched her back, mantling her wings threateningly as she stalked to stand in front of her rescuer.
The last call for passengers heading for Chicago fills the air threateningly.
She glared at him threateningly and then spun around, before he could say anything abusive.
He pursued me threateningly and when I saw his two friends coming up behind him I realised that I was in trouble.
The herd's massive matriarch advanced towards me with her ears spread threateningly.
He moved from side to side threateningly, like a maniac in a horror movie and I froze in complete panic.
At a lack of anything else to do, she shook a half-hearted fist at him threateningly, and the corner of his lips tipped up in a hint of a smile.
I turned before I left and shook my fist threateningly at him, then slammed his door.
She would have stooped to retrieve her knives had he not waved his own at her threateningly.
Moving in his downfall, sadly dilapidated in his disgrace, Bosco delivers a threateningly Parthian shot that should leave no one unshuddering.
With the threateningly popular Mr Weld gone, the state's Democrats have immediately turned to scalping other Democrats.
His statement came as North Korea was lobbing artillery shells threateningly into the Yellow Sea.
Religious fanaticism resounds threateningly in the loudspeakers and processions of veiled young women in full-length dresses.
The videos evoke a sensuous, yet monstrous feminine presence that is both threateningly and appealingly immersive.
Now three huge, ugly multi-storeys loom threateningly overhead.
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In another moment the timber under him was splitting and giving way at the cleated join, and sagging threateningly.
He finally ordered them away, and acted so threateningly that they retired.
He called Mongan over to him, and spoke to him very threateningly and ragingly.
The storm cloud of dissension still hung threateningly, and the future looked black and dismal.
Still he stood looking down at her, fixedly, almost threateningly.
She took the rabbit from him, and while the sapling swayed and teetered threateningly above her she calmly gnawed off the rabbit's head.
When she was gone the two brothers eyed each other threateningly.
When she recognized M. Vulfran she raised her arm to him threateningly.
He stepped forward, threateningly, his face dark with wrath.
At such times her running mates flashed their teeth and growled threateningly across at each other.
The yellow fangs were bared, angry snarls and barkings rumbled threateningly through the thick and hanging lips.
One of the younger apes, a huge, splendidly muscled brute, was edging threateningly closer to the ape-man.
He took a heavy paperweight and lifted it threateningly, but at once put it back in its place.
As soon as I tendered him the coin he fell back a step or two, and eyed me threateningly.
It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society.
And at this there came suddenly a lowering shadow over his face, and he tightened his grasp upon my hand and raised a forefinger threateningly before my eyes.
Discovering that I was a stranger, he lifted a thick cudgel that he carried with him, shook it threateningly, and called to me in his own language to stand back.
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