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Example sentences for: threaten

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Blumenthal's lawsuit may well ruin Drudge and threaten Internet free speech.
Invited by his buddy Arnie (Adrien Brody), a Jewish boy with garish rapper affectations, to help collect a debt for a mobster from the proprietor of a sex club, Harry finds himself bombarded by images of topless women and unable to keep from whaling on a man they came only to threaten.
1. Deputy Director Maxim Thorne says the plan would threaten innovative programs that have expanded the range of services offered, and won awards and broad community support.
The government said Microsoft used its monopoly power in the operating systems market to bully and threaten its way into dominance over the browser market.
The irony facing Dole--that converting your status into multiple wives can threaten the status itself--is thus a remnant, though greatly diluted, of our Victorian heritage.