Similar words: threaten, threatened, threat, heartening, glistening, shortening, frightening, thread. Meaning: ['θretnɪŋ] adj. 1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments 2. darkened by clouds.
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91. A blink from a monster victory now threatening disaster.
92. Barnett is not threatening lawsuits at this point.
93. The other was the target of threatening racial graffiti.
94. Toxic chemicals may permeate the soil, threatening the environment.
95. Outside, single shouts sounded - a threatening growl from several voices together - hens squawking.
96. Frost is also threatening tomorrow's other fixtures at Cheltenham and Leicester.
97. He suddenly looked very large and threatening in the doorway.
98. This automatic system monitors the position, closure rate and altitude of nearby aircraft, identifying potentially threatening intruders.
99. Lord Hill called his bluff by threatening to make public the reason why the programme could not be shown.
100. Love and joy seemed to explode inside her,[sentence dictionary] threatening to spill over into cries of happiness.
101. Clearly, until these questions are answered, gene therapy will be reserved for life threatening diseases.
102. One day we had just made camp when a local caste of herders came and began shouting and threatening us.
103. Eisenhower worried that big government was threatening the old American values.
104. Chi Ma Wan inmates have been threatening violent resistance should moves be made to deport them.
105. Today our hair is very red on account of the rain that is threatening us.
106. Like a leather-clad spanking madam in fluffy carpet slippers, it's less threatening that way.
107. He had said he would drag her through every court in the land, which sounded unpleasantly threatening.
108. A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok, threatening everyone.
109. Nausea rose in her throat, threatening to choke her, when she saw the bloodied arrow clutched in her hand.
110. The state is also threatening to fine the company and to block salary increases for its managers.
111. No doubt there will be would-be adopters who are likely to find the possibility of inclusive adoption threatening and not wish to proceed.
112. He was accused of using threatening or insulting behaviour and of assaulting a police officer.
113. But by thus trying to evade a threatening situation, she nearly gets destroyed by it.
114. As it becomes concentrated, the waste becomes even more threatening to marine life.
115. It wasn't just that the thing looked misshapen and ugly and threatening.
116. He spoke with the sort of quietly threatening tone that you ignored at your peril.
117. A threat to any one of these is therefore perceived as threatening the others.
118. Water diversions such as dams and canals are threatening the fish population.
119. The old lady's footsteps could be heard, ponderous and threatening, on the front steps.
120. Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep.
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