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:

The islands suffered food shortages and a serious bank failure, but nothing more threatening militarily than rumors of German submarines offshore.
Whites find him agreeable for the two reasons that they find any black intellectual agreeable: he makes what he knows about Negroes interesting but not threatening; he knows a great deal of white intellectual stuff, which whites always find amusing and entertaining in a Negro.
is the upstart commander of 'black' political forces, threatening a weakened, but spiritual, refined, and honor-bound version of the 'South.
He insists that Tibetans abjure violence, threatening to abdicate if Tibetans take arms against the Chinese.
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.