Sentence examples for constantly threatens from inspiring English sources

Cruellest of all, she constantly threatens to leave, playing on her young charges' terror of abandonment.

The Scandinavian Nidhogg, or "tearer of corpses" (as he is affectionately known), constantly threatens the existence of the entire world.

The circus artists are cast as mischievous and somewhat inept stagehands, whose well-meaning but often misplaced enthusiasm constantly threatens to derail the exasperated vocalists.

They're so tired of being losers and also-rans, trapped at the bottom of a society that constantly threatens to degenerate into just another African basket case.

But where Nabokov's megalomaniacal Charles Kinbote constantly threatens to overwhelm John Shade's manuscript, Kudobera is a more reverent custodian of Perina's work.

Depicted as a sort of contemporary version of the decadent high-society circles satirized by Waugh in "Vile Bodies," it's a realm so absurdly obsessed with class and status that it constantly threatens to topple over into parody.

Chad was constantly threatened from the north.

The grape crops are constantly threatened by deer and birds.

Analysis of the political situation in W. Berlin, which is constantly threatened by the Russians.

There was no garbage or sewerage treatment system, and fire constantly threatened the wooden structures.

Its tensions constantly threatened to wreck the fatal fruitful pact with his wife.