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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181. She looked behind her, out towards the brightening horizon, but saw only the black, threatening sea.
182. The more militant and threatening the pressure from below, the more vigorously the propertied classes supported repressive measures.
183. Well now, one surely would have thought that for such little things those great big waves might have seemed threatening.
184. What falling ill means to a cat, or any other animal, is that something unpleasant is threatening it.
185. With students threatening to run a Barclays-style boycott against any that participate, stand by for more to pull out.
186. Subjects were excluded from the study if they suffered from any debilitating or life threatening disease, including invasive cancer.
187. The Springboks poured forward, long passes threatening to release Paulse and Williams.
188. The Prussian gunner officer saw another troop of Dragoons threatening to outflank his position.
189. A hidden mechanism activates, ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge.
190. Each empty room made the next door yet more threatening.
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191. Under pressure, power projects threatening water quality and marine life were halted.
192. We were a finely balanced investment, threatening constantly to topple over into the realms of demand and expenditure.
193. The Hawiye clan, which dominates the rebel group currently threatening Mr Barre, is not thought to be vengeful.
194. He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club.
195. In addition, the generals are threatening to overthrow the first democratic government the country has had in 40 years.
196. In the wake of the bombing, the UK is threatening to break off diplomatic relations.
197. The canvas bag she was carrying was awkward too and banged against her legs, threatening to trip her up.
198. A pupil entering a new class may initially define the situation as threatening and even hostile.
199. The recipient might become worried if successive letters then come threatening that action will be taken to obtain the price from him.
200. She is threatening to pull out of the government and join Mr Sharif's agitation if Mr Ishaq does not fulfil her demands.
201. Her gestures were emphatic but, from a distance, did not appear threatening or abusive.
202. The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children, then herself.
203. A woman who entered such a union embarked, like Yone Noguchi, on a voyage of threatening vastness.
204. The concurrence of threatening life events and psychosocial distress may partly explain these phenomena.
205. Now motorists are threatening to give Shell pumps a wide berth.
206. Death had brushed Dustin's cheek twice, threatening to take him first by fire and secondly by a bomb.
207. Oxford's bowling was never threatening and looked rather ordinary when Glendenen and Parker began to hurry after a quiet first half-hour.
208. Perhaps he can be helped to interpret the events as less threatening.
209. Why didn't Luke damn well help him, instead of threatening to throw him off the film?
210. The war in Bosnia was at the peak of its brutality and threatening to spread.
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