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Example sentences for: threatening

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

The Turks had been threatening the country for some time but Hunyadi led the Hungarian army to victory against them at Nándorfehérvár (now Belgrade) in 1456.
We sped across the desert, the futon on the roof threatening to blow off, in order to make an appointment she'd made at a ritzy hairdressing salon.
The United States was threatening to attack unless unfettered inspections could resume.
Quoting a military manual leaked to the Jakarta Post , the paper said platoon leaders have been authorized to use live ammunition "in self-defense to cripple rioters who are clearly threatening to kill others [or to] cause heavy material damage."
, which has caused ‘sudden oak death’ (SOD) in tens of thousands of oak trees across the coastal counties of California, is now present in at least three other US states and is threatening to take on the native flora of the entire North American continent.