Use threatening in a sentence | example usage from the newswires

Editorial »

How to use the word threatening in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

350 results found

We have this Jack Smith lunatic threatening people every day through his representatives. They’re threatening jail terms, but talk about Trump and you’ll go free. – Former President Donald	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[ Merchan ] does n’t let the prosecutors or the defendants create any issues in Judge Merchan courtroom. Judge Merchan does n’t let a media circus or any other kind of circus happen. I do n’t think Donald Trump attacking Donald Trump and threatening Donald Trump is going to bode very well for Donald Trump in the courtroom, the judge is the kind of judge where he will ignore it and not hold it against Donald Trump. He’s not vindictive in any way like that. – Karen Friedman Agnifilo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They allowed him to leave, to join the rest of our family and to receive the care that he needed for his life-threatening condition, i can only hope that they summon that same spirit of humanity to do what is needed on their part, so that the rest of us — Morad, Emad and I — can also be reunited with our families, and to start putting this dark past behind us. – Siamak Namazi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Officers are always faced on a day-to-day basis with dangerous situations like that and at times where they have to make split-second decisions where they’re in a potential life-threatening situation. – Dhu Thompson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What North Korea is doing is completely wrong, they have been escalating nuclear and missile threats, and threatening the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. – Park Jin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Over the course of a few hours, three different times – three times – school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school and was threatening people, but the administration could not be bothered. – Diane Toscano	Found on CNN 1 year ago
China is substantially building up its military forces including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan, trying to control critical infrastructure and spreading misinformation about NATO and the war in Ukraine. – Jens Stoltenberg	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
China is watching closely and learning lessons that may influence its future decisions, china is substantially building up its military forces including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan, trying to control critical infrastructure and spreading misinformation about NATO and the war in Ukraine. – Jens Stoltenberg	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Algorithms manipulate our psychology to shape our minds and our behavior, without competition for them to do so responsibly, with too little competition over privacy, we find our most intimate data mined and sold with abandon. The digital age is not only characterized by the presence of monopoly power, but by new means of its exploitation more threatening to individual freedom than ever before. – Jeff Chiu/AP	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He’s certainly on what we consider a very normal to even accelerated trajectory from the life-threatening event that he underwent, but he’s making great progress. – Timothy Pritts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What it means is, for the 1.6 million Americans with life-threatening sesame allergy, that life gets better starting January 1, 2023. – Jason Linde	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We encourage parents to reinforce with their children that they should never make threatening statements. We must take any potential threat seriously. – Frederick Heid	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul.Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop. We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Because of the timing, our message is being conflated by some as being equivalent to the recent statement by Republican Leader McCarthy threatening an end to aid to Ukraine if Republicans take over, nothing could be further from the truth. – Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Republicans have made it clear that if they win control of the Congress, they will shut down the government, refuse to pay our bills, and it will be the first time in the history of America that we will default--unless I yield and cut social security and Medicare … They're threatening to default on the federal debt. There's nothing that would create more chaos, more inflation, more damage to the American economy than this, let me be clear: I will not cut social security. I will not cut Medicare. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Over the last year, we’re also witnessing an alarming spike in activity from domestic extremist groups threatening our communities with violence and hate, in person, online, and deep in our communities, we regularly hear the names of domestic terrorist groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys because of their involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. – Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted on visiting Taiwan in disregard of China's serious concerns and firm opposition, seriously interfering in China's internal affairs, seriously undermining China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, seriously trampling on the one-China principle, and seriously threatening the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. – United States	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For life-threatening injuries, call 911. – Nancy Strand	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don't know who said them and what context in which they were said -- and that matters, but if you look at the black letter of the quotes, those are very threatening words. There is probable cause to believe those words were intended to influence the testimony of a witness. Whether they were chargeable witness tampering, that depends on the context. – Michael Zeldin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's based around children. It's based around prevention and intervention. That's what it's based about. So we have to take what we have as a positive, and work off of this. This piece of legislation as drafted should not be threatening to any law-abiding citizen in the United States of America. Not one. – Joe Manchin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Babies have a very powerful mechanism to let us know when they are not happy. Usually, if a baby is confronted with a life-threatening situation, such as difficulty breathing during sleep because they are on their tummies, they will arouse and cry out. What this research shows is that some babies don't have this same robust arousal response. – Carmel Harrington	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When his political future is at risk, he becomes erratic, unhinged, coercive, and threatening, he accuses me of things that are untrue and generates conspiracy theories about me collaborating with his' enemies,' when I have done no such thing. – Sheena Greitens	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The prospect of large-scale disruptions to Russian oil production is threatening to create a global oil supply shock. – The IEA	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Family, especially your spouse, is seen as an extension of yourself, so therefore insulting your wife or insulting your children would be viewed equally as threatening as insulting yourself. – Joel Wong	Found on CNN 2 years ago

We have this Jack Smith lunatic threatening people every day through his representatives. They’re threatening jail terms, but talk about Trump and you’ll go free.

– Former President Donald

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ Merchan ] does n’t let the prosecutors or the defendants create any issues in Judge Merchan courtroom. Judge Merchan does n’t let a media circus or any other kind of circus happen. I do n’t think Donald Trump attacking Donald Trump and threatening Donald Trump is going to bode very well for Donald Trump in the courtroom, the judge is the kind of judge where he will ignore it and not hold it against Donald Trump. He’s not vindictive in any way like that.

– Karen Friedman Agnifilo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They allowed him to leave, to join the rest of our family and to receive the care that he needed for his life-threatening condition, i can only hope that they summon that same spirit of humanity to do what is needed on their part, so that the rest of us — Morad, Emad and I — can also be reunited with our families, and to start putting this dark past behind us.

– Siamak Namazi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Officers are always faced on a day-to-day basis with dangerous situations like that and at times where they have to make split-second decisions where they’re in a potential life-threatening situation.

– Dhu Thompson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What North Korea is doing is completely wrong, they have been escalating nuclear and missile threats, and threatening the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.

– Park Jin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the course of a few hours, three different times – three times – school administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school and was threatening people, but the administration could not be bothered.

– Diane Toscano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China is substantially building up its military forces including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan, trying to control critical infrastructure and spreading misinformation about NATO and the war in Ukraine.

– Jens Stoltenberg

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

China is watching closely and learning lessons that may influence its future decisions, china is substantially building up its military forces including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan, trying to control critical infrastructure and spreading misinformation about NATO and the war in Ukraine.

– Jens Stoltenberg

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Algorithms manipulate our psychology to shape our minds and our behavior, without competition for them to do so responsibly, with too little competition over privacy, we find our most intimate data mined and sold with abandon. The digital age is not only characterized by the presence of monopoly power, but by new means of its exploitation more threatening to individual freedom than ever before.

– Jeff Chiu/AP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s certainly on what we consider a very normal to even accelerated trajectory from the life-threatening event that he underwent, but he’s making great progress.

– Timothy Pritts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What it means is, for the 1.6 million Americans with life-threatening sesame allergy, that life gets better starting January 1, 2023.

– Jason Linde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We encourage parents to reinforce with their children that they should never make threatening statements. We must take any potential threat seriously.

– Frederick Heid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul.Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop. We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Because of the timing, our message is being conflated by some as being equivalent to the recent statement by Republican Leader McCarthy threatening an end to aid to Ukraine if Republicans take over, nothing could be further from the truth.

– Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Republicans have made it clear that if they win control of the Congress, they will shut down the government, refuse to pay our bills, and it will be the first time in the history of America that we will default--unless I yield and cut social security and Medicare … They're threatening to default on the federal debt. There's nothing that would create more chaos, more inflation, more damage to the American economy than this, let me be clear: I will not cut social security. I will not cut Medicare.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Over the last year, we’re also witnessing an alarming spike in activity from domestic extremist groups threatening our communities with violence and hate, in person, online, and deep in our communities, we regularly hear the names of domestic terrorist groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys because of their involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

– Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted on visiting Taiwan in disregard of China's serious concerns and firm opposition, seriously interfering in China's internal affairs, seriously undermining China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, seriously trampling on the one-China principle, and seriously threatening the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

– United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For life-threatening injuries, call 911.

– Nancy Strand

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don't know who said them and what context in which they were said -- and that matters, but if you look at the black letter of the quotes, those are very threatening words. There is probable cause to believe those words were intended to influence the testimony of a witness. Whether they were chargeable witness tampering, that depends on the context.

– Michael Zeldin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's based around children. It's based around prevention and intervention. That's what it's based about. So we have to take what we have as a positive, and work off of this. This piece of legislation as drafted should not be threatening to any law-abiding citizen in the United States of America. Not one.

– Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Babies have a very powerful mechanism to let us know when they are not happy. Usually, if a baby is confronted with a life-threatening situation, such as difficulty breathing during sleep because they are on their tummies, they will arouse and cry out. What this research shows is that some babies don't have this same robust arousal response.

– Carmel Harrington

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When his political future is at risk, he becomes erratic, unhinged, coercive, and threatening, he accuses me of things that are untrue and generates conspiracy theories about me collaborating with his' enemies,' when I have done no such thing.

– Sheena Greitens

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The prospect of large-scale disruptions to Russian oil production is threatening to create a global oil supply shock.

– The IEA

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Family, especially your spouse, is seen as an extension of yourself, so therefore insulting your wife or insulting your children would be viewed equally as threatening as insulting yourself.

– Joel Wong

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Are we missing a good definition for threatening? Don't keep it to yourself...

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

The Web's Largest Resource for

Definitions & Translations

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Free, no signup required:

Add to Chrome

Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

Free, no signup required:

Add to Firefox

Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

Browse Definitions.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Quiz

Are you a words master?

a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.

A bash

B decline

C nuisance

D gauge