Sentence examples for turned threatening from inspiring English sources

Finally the situation turned threatening enough that the police had cause to intervene — and did.

Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for "60 Minutes" on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening.

Dwight turned threatening: "I'll dig up your wife's dead body and feed it to the crows, you feel that?" But his friend's mind wasn't changed.

He adapted and improvised and tweaked his techniques: impersonate a police officer; snatch a box of diamonds from a jeweler whose head was turned; threaten bank tellers with a fake bomb.

Meanwhile, the power company turns threatening, Ed begins to realize he has lucked into one of the biggest damage cases in United States history and Erin, bursting with righteous indignation, shows she's up for a court battle.

Night after night Emily wheedled, by turns threatening and pleading.

They were also warned that slow growth was hampering Italy's chance of escaping the debt crisis, in turn threatening to make the country insolvent and drag down other large countries that use the euro.

In collaged images of classic movie stars, sometimes with cliffs or waterfalls for faces, he investigates the seductive power that images have over us, and makes this power appear by turns threatening, magical and melancholy.

That policy is aimed at stopping banks from accumulating so much debt that they put the finances of countries like Ireland and Spain at risk, in turn threatening the future of the euro.

The Vatican is worried that this review structure requires the bishops to cede too much influence and discretion to the laity, in turn threatening the Vatican's own authority.

Wall Street strategists don't expect the proceedings to depress stocks unless the trial takes a surprising turn, threatening Clinton's presidency.