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How to use threatens in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word threatens? Here are some examples.

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A small-time crook threatens to blow up a New York landmark unless his demands for money are met.
This stand-off threatens to create a slew of zombie banks, on life support from the taxpayer, for a prolonged period of time.
Things escalate when a SWAT team follow the police onto the scene and the macho head officer threatens to take the place by storm.
Cold rush threatens pristine Antarctic, says the Guardian's science correspondent Ian Sample.
Secondly, Robert De Niro threatens a creditor with a revolver he bought, the result of more borrowing.
A crescendo rises and threatens to explode, but vanishes, leaving all but a ripple of sound.
And it is understood that military spending threatens neighbor states, causing them to arm themselves, so that arms races threaten the peace.
Finally, technology threatens to depersonalize our lives and increase our ultimate loneliness.
It threatens to unravel a deal over the long-running pay dispute which led to an all-out strike.
By suggesting an asocial relationship before the intervention of social roles, class, and structures, it threatens to upset the existing order.
When land is divided up into smaller parcels and lots, Sherwonit says, it threatens the park's integrity.
A state of emergency is declared and the army threatens to assume control if order is not restored.
Whether asymmetry threatens the development of a democratic federal system is open to debate.
He ruthlessly threatens to bury the diner's young owner when the owner conscientiously decides to back out of the sale.
Yet the story progresses so slowly that it threatens to lull the viewer to sleep.
Clearly, many Lutherans see full communion with the Episcopal Church as a costly decision that threatens Lutheran identity.
It threatens that if money is not sent within days, steps will be taken to recover the money via the British courts.
Spam clogs our mailboxes daily to the point where it threatens viability of e-mail as a communications tool.
As baby boomers age and life expectancy rises, dementia threatens to become epidemic.
The government's main aim, however, was to rein in the country's huge coal output, which threatens to glut markets and undermine profits.
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Examples from Classical Literature
What if Speyer should do as he threatens, print my letters, and placard them about the streets!
He threatens with all the rigour of the law those who dare to give his wife an asylum.
The weeds have been allowed to grow too long, and now we must mow down the crop, which threatens to choke the good seed!
Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed, and now she threatens to have me up before the matron.
The wounded are lying in heaps, and the crossfire of the Indians, now centering from all points, threatens utter extermination.
She threatens periodically to burn the belt up and throw the old rifles out of the house.
The lyrist complains to Love, pities Love for her scorning, and threatens to go away with Love, who is on his side.
That laisser-aller policy of his threatens to land us in serious difficulties.
This lordling threatens to eject these hapless Macalpines, and poor Kenneth, the widows son, is on the very verge of the grave.
Eva threatens me with her parasol, and laughs, hiding her rosy face in a bouquet of reseda.
There will be some careful pruning done for the good of the human race, which, as it is, threatens to overcrowd the earth.
No tree with fruit or blossoms can be cut down, as the sloka threatens the cutter with destruction of his family and wealth.
It wakens or warns, threatens or gladdens, and woos him back to slumberland.
Mr. Hodgkin appears to think that in this direction lies the main danger which threatens the British Empire.
Anyhow, now the Indian's gone, and a cold snap threatens, we have got to quit.
He sues the lady rowen'a to become his bride, and threatens to kill both Cedric and Ivanhoe if she refuses.
First he breaks to pieces the bottom of my house, and then he threatens to unroof it.
When it ceases to be her interest, she plainly threatens to leave off at a week's notice.
One instance, however, is in the Antigone, where Haemon threatens to kill Creon.
It reefs its sail when a storm threatens or the wind blows pretty hard, and furls it entirely and goes down when a gale blows.
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