Sentence examples for threatening phrase from inspiring English sources

It's a vaguely threatening phrase often used to admonish the more haphazard among us, like photos of houses with no clutter or socks on the floor.

On April 6, UC Berkeley senior Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, an Iraqi refugee, was booted off his Southwest Airlines flight to Oakland after a passenger thought she heard him use a "threatening phrase," the New York Times reports.

In a later scene, Kevin Bacon uses precisely this phrase, threatening to end his support for Connolly's costly "informant" plan for Bulger.

In July, a Montana company that makes Western-themed accessories stopped selling a "Don't Mess With Texas" belt buckle after the Texas Department of Transportation, which owns the federally registered trademark on the phrase, threatened legal action and told the firm to ship the offending merchandise to Austin.

Note the phrase "threatened use of force" in the above definition of terrorism, and then ask yourself what the guy with the assault weapon was doing, given the events of the past year or so.

In that proposal, the United States removed the phrase "all necessary means" from the passage threatening Iraq if it failed comply with weapons inspections.

These phrases cut in all kinds of directions, threatening the exasperated truce that they establish.

In the dialogue between today's Congress and the White House, the phrase "exchange of ideas" always sounds a little threatening.

One reason global warming ranks so low on the list of environmental concerns might be the phrase itself: "global warming" just doesn't sound all that threatening.

"Call the human flesh search engines!" another threatened, using an Internet phrase that implies physical, as opposed to virtual, action.

The speech in question need not be extremely and imminently threatening to anyone or pose "a clear and present danger" (to use Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' phrase).