Sentence examples for a big threatening from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a big threatening" is not correct in standard written English
It is not a commonly used expression and may confuse readers due to its awkward construction. Example: "The storm was a big threatening presence on the horizon."

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Instead of having a big threatening black man, this movie reinvents the genre by offering several of them: the rapper bodyguard brothers Andre Michaell Taliferro and Jamall (Faison Love) and Earl Wilkerson Michael Jacee), whose character is as much of a walk-on as he could be, considering that he was released from prison into the custody of a pro team.

While that isn't the furthest Iranian missiles have travelled, any successful missile test that doesn't require the assistance of Photoshop is a big, threatening imperialism-crusher of a "fuck you" to the US, so I imagine it's keeping them pretty content. .

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"Again," Wallace wrote, "something big threatens to happen but doesn't actually happen".

The clouds were high, and with a big storm threatening, it might have been our last chance to get a view of what lay beyond.

You get a new job, or the boss dies of a heart attack, or a big customer threatens to leave.

Contrary to what you may hear today, David Cameron's plan for a "big society" threatens to undermine social justice and widen inequalities.

Bill Gray, a professor of meteorology at Colorado State University, who runs a hurricane-forecasting centre and is the man America always turns to when a big hurricane threatens, doubts the methods of the climatologists.

A big dog threatens to bound over a fence.

The Parliament's decision did not end the argument, but it lifted a big, immediate cloud threatening a business that some Wall Street analysts predict could be bigger than tobacco within a decade.

Then the president and the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera caused a big commotion by threatening to withdraw from the project unless the opera was allowed to become more involved in the planning.

Give NBC credit for dealing with a big error that threatened to sow further mayhem on a very delicate story.

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