THREATENINGLY in a Sentence
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282 example sentences for THREATENINGLY, such as:
1. The new legislation threatens individual liberty.
2. The payment was made to avoid threatened litigation.
3. Renewed fighting threatens to derail the peace talks.
4. His father threatened to beat the boy if he stole again.
5. Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
2. The payment was made to avoid threatened litigation.
3. Renewed fighting threatens to derail the peace talks.
4. His father threatened to beat the boy if he stole again.
5. Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
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Meanings and Examples of THREATENINGLY
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threateningly
ad. in a menacing manner
Classic Sentence: (184 in 13 pages)
1 He took a heavy paperweight and lifted it threateningly, but at once put it back in its place.
2 But his comrade, throwing down the boots and drawing his sword, moved threateningly toward Pierre.
3 He sprang forward to enter, but the specter plucked him back, and waved threateningly before him a.
4 A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
5 The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions.
6 Napoleon gallops past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats them.
7 One thinks one beholds a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares.
8 He advances, he threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9 The fog increased the darkness, and formed round the sternlights and lanterns of the jetty a circle like that which surrounds the moon when the weather threatens to become rainy.
10 He has deceived her in her love, humbled her in her pride, thwarted her in her ambition; and now he ruins her fortune, deprives her of liberty, and even threatens her life.
11 My daughter is my flesh and blood, dearer to me a thousand times than those limbs which thy cruelty threatens.
12 The first consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens you.
13 It is absurd to suppose that you have two enemies, one of whom robs you, while the other threatens your life.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
14 Him thou couldst espy like one who chafes and like one who threatens, because Cocles dared to tear down the bridge, and Cloelia broke her bonds and swam the river.
15 Aeneas thunders in arms, and threatens to overthrow and hurl to destruction the high Italian fortress; and already firebrands are flying on our roofs.
Example Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1 The shadow of the gallows would loom threateningly above the small boy.
2 Poisoned the weapon was beyond any doubt, and thereafter Binu Charley carried it threateningly at the prisoner's back.
3 Commercial exploitation of resources threatens our survival.
4 Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
5 The new legislation threatens individual liberty.
6 The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.
7 Renewed fighting threatens to derail the peace talks.
8 Argentina's erratic inflation rate threatens to upset the plans.
9 The instability of the Italian government following the tax-fraud conviction of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi threatens to end a lull in the European debt crisis and derail a nascent economic recovery.
10 Management has threatened to lock out the workforce if they do not accept the proposed changes in working methods.
11 The government has threatened to take military action if the rebels do not withdraw from the area.
12 The African National Congress threatened to withdraw from the talks.
13 The arrival of this South American predator threatened the survival of native species.
14 The payment was made to avoid threatened litigation.
15 His father threatened to beat the boy if he stole again.