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Sentence count:181+1Posted:2016-07-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: admonishadvisealertbrowbeatbulldozebullycautionforebodeharassintimidatemenaceterrorizewarnSimilar words: threatthreadcreatethreethresholdwith regard towith respect togreatMeaning: ['θretn]  v. 1. pose a threat to; present a danger to 2. to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police" 3. to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain". 
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91. Those conflicts, however, do not seem to threaten regional integration.
92. He bashed me over the head and took out a knife to threaten me.
93. Whichever way I turn my eyes, he cried, I see nothing to threaten Realism.
94. It also allowed and even encouraged employers to threaten workers who want to organize.
95. The negotiations with the Soviets are at a crucial stage, and nothing must be allowed to threaten those talks.
96. Tate said the fences threaten to diminish property values in the neighborhood.
97. In general, elite settlements stem from long periods of conflict and crises that threaten to rekindle widespread violence.
98. Plans to build a new airfield could threaten the delicate ecology of the island.
99. The February attack could mark a change of tactics which will really threaten the regime if there is an escalation.
100. They would exacerbate the problems of unbalanced power that threaten any cooperative relationship.
101. Deny or threaten it, and you deny and threaten some one's existence.
102. Lawful strikes may threaten the fabric of a society much more than many unlawful acts.
103. Further building development would threaten valuable badger and red squirrel habitats.
104. Bed clinkering threaten startup of CFB boiler.
105. Don't threaten me with death; I'm past caring!
106. In fact, over the past few years, consistently close to double-digit inflation, high salary increases, and unrealistic property values have begun to threaten our future economic vitality.
107. When narco-trafficking and corruption threaten democracy in Latin America, it's America's problem too.
108. By counting each e-mail sent by a white-collar wrongdoer as a separate case of wire fraud, prosecutors can threaten him with a gargantuan sentence unless he confesses, or informs on his boss.
109. However, storms that form more north or east have a greater chance to threaten the Eastern seaboard or simply recurve into the open ocean.
110. Congenital abnormity, leucocythemia and death of suddenness threaten the life of child below 5 years old severely, it must be prevented and cured.
111. No American president or Congress would want to give their blessing to a nuclear-armed Iran continuing to threaten the Jewish state with destruction.
112. "Making less money than a female partner may threaten men's gender identity by calling into question the traditional notion of men as breadwinners," Munsch said.
113. Porcine contagious pleuropneumonia is one of the five primary diseases that threaten modern pig industry throughout the world.
114. Sixth, the pleasure-boat, in sailing, visitors can't get about at will , forbids getting drunk, making a fun, so as not to threaten the security of oneself and others.
115. China has undertaken unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states and nuclear-weapon-free zones.
116. Greenmail is the practice of buying larger share of a company's stock to threaten a hostile takeover and reselling it to the company at a price above market value.
117. BP Plc objected to proposed legislation that would bar the oil company from operating new drilling leases in U.S. waters,(http://sentencedict.com/threaten.html) saying it could trigger job losses and threaten the nation's energy security.
118. But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
119. In the event it mixed a few sensible ideas (faster help for those whose banks threaten to repossess their houses) with a few dotty ones (luring first-time buyers into a falling market).
120. Since Gongzui Hydropower Station put into operation, the tail water level always threaten the flood control safety against pow er-house(in di cating powerhouse on the ground).
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