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Example sentences for: threatened

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Example: "We have had either hostilities or threatened hostilities at interesting times throughout the last year" (incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston).
Shanghai fell and Nanking was threatened.
Actually, it isn't: Sprint PCS billed a customer for six phones, refused to stop billing him, and threatened him when he wouldn't pay for service pending a resolution of the problem.
A wealth of circumstantial evidence indicates that they've threatened witnesses and committed criminal fraud by illegally withholding subpoenaed documents.
On the tiny island nation of St. Kitts, a cocaine smuggler named Charles "Little Nut" Miller threatened to murder American veterinary students at the island's university unless the United States dropped its efforts to extradite him.