The phrase "a sort of threat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or implies a threat without being an outright or direct threat.
Example: "His tone had a sort of threat that made everyone in the room uneasy."
Alternatives: "a kind of intimidation" or "a type of menace."
The official, Mike Froman, a deputy national security adviser, issued a statement denying that he was making any sort of threat, but the episode further inflamed the nuclear debate.
As you'd expect Zynga's CEO Mark Pincus pooh-poohed Playdom as any sort of threat.
"We don't want language-learning to be linked to any sort of threat," she says.
You could say Luis Buñuel cast Deneuve as some kind of "potiche" as Séverine in Belle de Jour in 1967 and it has been impossible ever since for the male viewer to look at this prolific actress as anything other than a symbol of female potency, even as a sort of erotic threat.
"There isn't a sort of ongoing threat in relation to any plot or anything around this individual".
"We also live in a cultural environment in which young black men are feared and seen as a sort of universal threat.
And so the alt-right see the growth in minority populations in the US as a sort of existential threat to American prosperity, because those black and brown individuals are perceived as genetically and therefore irrevocably inferior to the whites that they are fast outnumbering.
He has said he wants to be president one day, but he posed a different sort of threat: a steadily growing popularity combined with an incorruptibility that made him impossible to co-opt and a relentlessness in embarrassing officials by disclosing their corrupt dealings.
Mike told me that he sees his role as a sort of "weatherman" of threats.
Rogue states with nuclear arms pose a different sort of threat, but it is hard to imagine Britain attempting to deal with a nuclear delinquent without the overwhelming might of America by its side.Britain's unloved nukesPolitically, the fact that the British deterrent has relied heavily on technical assistance from America has long been a problem.
