Sentence examples for but threatening from inspiring English sources

It's very literally genetically altered food: appealing but threatening.

But threatening a libel claim against thousands of people at once is novel.

"It is taking decisions whose consequences are not only squeezing the middle class, but threatening its very existence".

But threatening to report that someone has committed a crime can be considered a form of extortion.

He was in drag, but the effect wasn't campy: he looked mutilated but threatening, like a zombie.

Wyden responded: "What we're talking about today is not making the country safer but threatening our liberty".

He is promising amnesty for some Iraqis, but threatening to crack down on those who do not accept it.

I'm happy with how the face turned out, kind of like a mask, with something guarded but threatening about it.

The second is a performance-related approach to managing Iraq helping Iraqis to help themselves but threatening penalties should they fail.

This time, on board a wide-body, four-engine jet aircraft apparently belonging to Libyan Airlines and now under rebel control, the chant was anything but threatening.

Experts also noted that it was bizarre for an Interior secretary ― whose job it is to manage some 500 million acres of federal land, including 59 national parks ― to call sitting senators to relay a vague-but-threatening message over a vote on an issue unrelated to the agency.