Words similar to threat

Example sentences for: threat

How can you use “threat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If Buchanan and Lugar can't agree on which kind of threat China poses, they won't be able to agree which kind of anti-missile system the GOP should stand for.
Others tow all cars within a one-mile radius, weld closed all manhole covers, remove all trash cans, lock all mailboxes, and assign 7,000 cops to the scene, while denying the existence of any specific threat.
THE SUMMER OF THREAT
However, even leaving aside what are, in all three of those examples, to me very valid questions of interpretation (I think--I haven't seen Dogma ), given that the resources of political activism on the behalf of special interests are necessarily limited, I would prefer to put my dollar and my anxiety down on the side of protecting actual, real live human beings suffering actual, real live oppression, or the threat thereof.
DOD transcript, Air Threat Conference Call, Sept. 11, 2001.