Sentence examples for threatening to bash from inspiring English sources

A psychiatrist's report described him threatening to "bash in the face of his wife" and ranting about getting his guns so he could "shoot everybody".

Right, the insufferable Ma Joad (she's symbolic, so she doesn't have a first name) -- who oscillates between threatening to bash her menfolk with blunt instruments ("knock you belly-up with a bucket," "slap ya with a stick a stove wood") when they don't do what she wants and serving as a mouthpiece for Steinbeck's hick-collectivist platitudes: "Maybe if we was all mad in the same way".

Weber-Jeter told police that when he finally let her go, Jeter threatened to bash her and all the kids' heads in with a baseball bat.

Last November, Republicans used the cost-cutting provisions as a club to bash Democrats for threatening to trim Medicare spending, and won the senior vote by a twenty-one-point margin.

"One hundred is threatening to leave".

Endemol is threatening to sue.

Post-September-11th America was also gripped by a patriotic frenzy that threatened to degenerate into Muslim-bashing jingoism.

War veterans, the often violent agents of the state, subsequently threatened to set fire to the Americans' vehicle with them inside, and tried to bash in the windows with their rifle butts.

Especially if the candidate in question is a preacher who bashes Wall Street and hedge-fund managers and threatens to take a Christian attitude toward those too poor to benefit from the Bush tax cuts.

One woman attempted to kill herself seven times in five weeks, threatened to kill her own daughter, and had to be sedated to stop her repeatedly bashing her head into the ground.

His daughter has a tendency to play leapfrog with the narrative at the exact moment when it threatens to hold our interest; one moment Jeremiah is smarting beneath his grandfather's Bible-bashing regime, and the next, heralded by the words "Three Years Later," we see him (played from here on by Cole and Dylan Sprouse) preaching in the street, wearing a black suit and bashing a Bible of his own.