Sentence examples for 1 threatening from inspiring English sources

We discriminated three degrees of intensity of aggressive interactions: (1) threatening [birds taking up a threatening posture (bill open and/or feathers bristling and/or wings/head lowered) but without observed physical contact], (2) threatening with physical contact (besides the threatening, brief physical contact took place) and (3) fight (longer and intensive physical contact).

Rh4!, threatening both 21..

But Mamedyarov missed 26 Re6, threatening 27 Rg6.

Bd7, he struck with 24 Ng5, threatening 25 Qh5.

But after 31 Qc1, Black countered with 31... Qg5, threatening 32... h4.

After 28 Kf1, Postny struck with 28... Qd7!, threatening 29... Qd1mate.

Instead of 35... Qc2, Topalov could have tried 35... Bd6, threatening 36... Qb1.

Adams jumped at the chance to thrust 21... d5! threatening 22... Qa3.

After 34... Rc5 35 Qc5 Qb2 36 Qc8! Rf8 37 Nc6, threatening 38 Qf8 Kf8 39 b8/Q, Morozevich could not stave off disaster.

Bc6 17 Rea1, threatening the quietly crushing 18 Bb5! or 18 Nb5!

Kaidanov intensified the debility of the e6 square by advancing with 10 d5, threatening 11 Nd4 and 12 Ne6.