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US
/ˈθɹɛtənɪŋ, ˈθɹɛtnɪŋ/
]
[ UK /θɹˈɛtənɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /θɹˈɛtənɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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darkened by clouds
a heavy sky -
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
ominous rumblings of discontent
his threatening behavior
forbidding thunderclouds
a baleful look
his tone became menacing
the situation became ugly
a sinister smile
sinister storm clouds
ugly black clouds
How To Use threatening In A Sentence
- Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
- The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries - a deep wound to his side had punctured a lung.
- People are becoming more sensitized to the dangers threatening the environment.
- Too much sodium makes the body excrete calcium, threatening bone density and strength.
- In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
- Experts warn overdevelopment is threatening the golden seashores in Hainan island, the popular sub-tropical tourist destination.
- Journalists in Shropshire are threatening to ballot for industrial action claiming managers are refusing to answer their questions about job cuts. Strike threat at the Shropshire Star
- They have been miniaturized so as to make them less threatening or intimidating to their small owners.
- It was an instance of the great wickedness of the Jews that they were thus enraged; and this in Deuteronomy is the matter of a threatening. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- It helped her defuse a life-threatening situation in the Himalayas, when she and her friends were confronted by knife-carrying attackers.
