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    threatening example sentences

    threatening


    1. Well? Well what? What was Henry doing here again? He looked down at his hand and saw the sales report clutched in a shaking, life threatening grip


    2. Silence had both swords in her hands, and was threatening him with small swipes through the air


    3. His throat tightened, threatening to cut off the air to his lungs


    4. I'm hard to intimidate unless it's two goons in my house with sledgehammers and baseball bats threatening to break my children's’ bones


    5. He looked more afraid than he did when the goons were threatening to kill us


    6. This self-willed attitude can result in brethren viewing the ideas of others as threatening, personal


    7. ’ She said, turning her full attention on her companion, satisfied that there was nothing obviously threatening


    8. ‘That’s easy!’ Kara said, grinning and suppressing the tears threatening


    9. Her eyes busily scanned the people in the vicinity, on the lookout for anything that might be threatening while Angie referred to the little map Iain had drawn for them


    10. dreadfully threatening tone with my teeth

    11. David had opportunity to put to death that which was threatening and intimidating


    12. As soon as she recognised me as someone she could talk to, she let loose in Greek with a tirade of complaints and hand signals, touching my forearm, threatening her cargo and even taking strides away only to return with cries of admonishment


    13. Shangri-las are being ruined all over the world but there must have been something much more serious threatening this haven and whatever it was, its hand was on his shoulder when he died


    14. He'd been in the lab most of the last two weeks and the last few days Ava had been threatening to move out on him if he didn't start paying more attention to her


    15. His chat up lines developed from monosyllabic grunting into the crudely embarrassing hope of youth before finally passing into the hopelessly threatening swagger of the seventeen year old


    16. Her face grew pale, contrasting with the dark and threatening sea


    17. Sam comes to greet me as I open the door but she’s obviously finding it an effort … dear Sam, what would I do without you? I quickly change my clothes and take her out into the garden … she sniffs around quite happily … maybe it is just stiffness … I shiver … although the rain has stopped there are still dark clouds which look threatening


    18. Remember that fear is your body‘s natural response to what you believe is a threatening situation


    19. wretched and desperately alone in this harsh and threatening world


    20. I can feel the tears threatening to fall

    21. hopelessly threatening swagger of the seventeen year old


    22. Billy and Bex enjoy the smallness of domesticity, breaking the back of a confusing, sometimes threatening world by carving life up into manageable chunks


    23. tree roots and sharp jagged rocks, threatening to grab his feet from underneath him


    24. A merciless sun beat down through a cloudless sky, scorching the earth and threatening to turn it into powder


    25. Cocky but not threatening


    26. Suddenly the path became an uncertain, narrow causeway edged by threatening tussocks of grass, the sludgy pools between them sucking mouths edged with rotting ferny teeth, just waiting for her to fall into them, to be lost for eternity in their peaty brown depths


    27. The sound brought both Angie and Kev to their senses and, her smile threatening to crack her face in two, Angie had pulled him into the house and shut the door


    28. This time it was low and threatening, with some emotion


    29. Carol dams the flood of words threatening to overflow her defensive walls


    30. This AOG plane (Aircraft on Ground) was threatening corporate survival

    31. The collection boys were writing nasty letters threatening me that a collection agency was after us if we don't pay the bills


    32. Her heart beat harder, faster, threatening to burst open her chest


    33. There was something distinctly threatening about


    34. “Your fault too, huh? So, why is it okay for you to kiss me in your dreams, but not when you’re awake?” His fangs lengthened, which only occurred when he was threatened or the one doing the threatening


    35. threatening to pop out of his sockets and he was coughing with


    36. Penelope slowly turned to face the one threatening her, knowing full well who she would find at the other end of the sword


    37. To dream that you fall through ice suggests that your emotions are threatening to come crashing through


    38. If the temperature is high, then it indicates that feelings of anger or hatred or threatening to come to your consciousness


    39. That was said to be achieved using brute force, ruining rivals' campaign tours and even threatening people into voting for whomever it was that was giving her the money


    40. Without this support, s/he may then be more easily overwhelmed in difficult or threatening situations

    41. As it happened, there was nothing of any threatening nature in the Olnish system


    42. It took everything to suppress the smirk threatening to spread across his face


    43. Its breath hung, sweet but threatening, in the air


    44. The Leader somehow sensed the officer was thinking about him, as out of the blue, the Leader fixed him with a slightly manic, slightly threatening grin


    45. ’ The pause between the sentences was slightly threatening


    46. Edna White, her heart threatening to stop beating, dropped to her hands and knees quietly, quickly


    47. This did not stay with him for long because his quivering cock was threatening to explode in his pants


    48. His eyes were wide, the panic threatening to take over


    49. It meant he was safe from those who were threatening his very life


    50. Alex took a threatening step forward














































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    Synonyms for "threatening"

    baleful forbidding menacing minacious minatory ominous sinister threatening heavy lowering sullen grave serious dangerous scowling troublesome

    "threatening" definitions

    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments


    darkened by clouds