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'threatening' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'threatening' with 11 example sentences.


threatening adjective

: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

: darkened by clouds


  • I received three threatening phone calls this morning.
  • Airport workers are threatening to strike.
  • He's always threatening to quit, but he never does.
  • Human greed is threatening the existence of many species.
  • The patient's injuries aren't life-threatening.
  • I'm not threatening you.
  • He wrote a threatening letter to his girlfriend.
  • The sky had become threatening before I got to the station.
  • It is threatening to rain.
  • The threatening floods made it necessary to evacuate the town.
  • They are threatening my life.
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