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Example sentences for: threatened

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It occurs to me further that the beach itself might not have been able to accommodate this monument to freedom were it not for the fact that, a few years back, my sister took it upon herself to consult some experts, among them actual bureaucrats, about the erosion that then threatened it.
Air strikes were threatened in October 1998; a full-scale NATO bombing campaign against Serbia was launched in March 1999.
Morris speculates that Reagan married his first wife, Jane Wyman, because she threatened to commit suicide if he didn't.
Conservatives thwarted them and captured Congress by convincing voters that the plan threatened existing health benefits, particularly the right of patients to choose their doctors.
"As a professional football player, he'd been physically threatened by other players for refusing to join a strike."