Example sentences for: threatened

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

  • According to Time , 139 million Americans live in regions threatened by hurricanes.

  • But the most formidable obstacle to online voting may be entrenched interests threatened by change.

  • They threatened to blow up the plane, and its remaining 161 passengers, if India does not release a number of prisoners--including the leader of a Kashmiri separatist movement jailed in 1994.

  • By Easter Sunday, the Sunday Telegraph was leading with the news that peace was already threatened by Sinn Fein's refusal to press the IRA to hand over its weapons immediately.

  • Richard Lugar has threatened to make trouble for North Carolina Sen.


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