Words similar to threatening

Example sentences for: threatening

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

Because of Helms-Burton, the United States is threatening to fine Wal-Mart if its Canadian subsidiary sells Cuban-made pajamas, and is denying Italian executives visas to the United States.
Lassa fever remains a serious challenge to public health in West Africa, threatening both local residents in rural areas and those who serve them, particularly medical care providers.
He insists that Tibetans abjure violence, threatening to abdicate if Tibetans take arms against the Chinese.
.. rouat , or the cacophonous: chuchbachuch bauachuch bakaxichuch bazabachuch bachaxichuch bazetophoth bainchoooch . (Psycholinguists like F. Trojan even trace relationships between word sounds and word meanings, the deep, dark vowels like o and u having an awesome, threatening, secretive nature on the one hand, and on the other the lighter ones like e and i often referring to the gentler, pleasanter things--whether in Indo-European or Chinese phonetics.)
Most British papers led Friday with the failure of the British and Irish prime ministers to resolve a dispute over terrorist disarmament, which is threatening the Northern Ireland peace process.