Sentence examples for the threatening from inspiring English sources
verb
To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
- He threatened me with a knife.
He also admitted sending the threatening emails "in a moment of panic".
Whatever the threatening situation, Xander could be waiting for extra bacon for his double cheeseburger.
Shane, on the other hand, has received abusive e-mail bordering on the threatening.
She was talking to "a gentleman unknown to me" — the threatening stranger.
He had faced up to seven years in prison on the threatening to kill charge.
The New Yorker, December 23 , 1944P. 13 Talk story about the threatening butchers' strike.
The FBI said he admitted to the threatening calls.
Rhodes similarly concludes that if a throffer is coercive, it is because of the threatening aspect.
The threatening aspect of a throffer need not be explicit, as it was in Steiner's examples.
At night, the threatening sky slowly brightens, and the fear of rain is definitively swept away.
The larger, implicit point is that the threatening thing is not really that threatening.
