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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211. But it looked like, instead of being a clenched and threatening fist, they would present a welcoming, open hand.
212. The most threatening form of pollution known to humankind is poverty.
213. Threatening lions can be killed under special permit by the Fish and Game Department.
214. Most threatening of these for the marine ecosystem is the exposure to increased ultra-violet radiation through the depletion of the ozone layer.
215. Second, and more threatening, there was grass-roots discontent at Baldwin's indolent approach to the tasks of opposition.
216. It is now threatening to overwhelm the beds of a native seagrass which are important breeding grounds for fish.
217. The defendants were found guilty of plotting to overthrow the monarchy and threatening the security of the state.
218. Bonds has a pulled hamstring, which is seldom fatal, but it was threatening to infect the entire team.
219. The monoclonal antibodies work by combating the T-Lymphocytes and other threatening cells.
220. Even the thought of sharing a bed with him didn't seem so threatening when he was being kind.
221. Telford, of Wheatley, Doncaster, was conditionally discharged by town magistrates after admitting threatening[http://sentencedict.com/threatening.html], abusive and insulting behaviour.
222. They are constantly changing their numbers, or going ex-directory to stave off threatening calls.
223. Rosie's shadow loomed monstrously across the ceiling as she lumbered to her feet with a threatening growl.
224. While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations, they found many were making the wrong decisions.
225. Urban violence and civil unrest were mushrooming like small bombs threatening to blow up the machine from within.
226. The local police chief had scared him off by threatening to arrest him for manslaughter if Annie perished.
227. But instead of levying fines, prosecuting plant officials or revoking their licenses[sentencedict.com], the agency only wrote threatening letters to trustees.
228. Now his campaign is threatening to self-destruct because of a controversy over racial politics involving the comedian Jackie Mason.
229. Ben didn't want to study law, but his father bullied him into it by threatening to cut off his allowance.
230. Paradoxically, what was potentially a threatening situation for Franco in fact strengthened his position.
231. She continued to receive harassing phone calls and threatening letters.
232. But the question remains: why were those two Frenchwomen in the sixteenth century found so threatening?
233. The mine owners coerced the workers into going back to work, by threatening to close down the mines completely.
234. The result is that civil, socio-political and environmental disasters are now threatening the roots of our existence.
235. It created a statutory offence of riot - 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose.
236. So too the yawning depths of the wave, even while threatening annihilation, hold out the promise of rebirth.
237. She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own.
238. But occasionally a word, a definition an attitude looms like a weapon between us, threatening to destroy the conversation.
239. The decision caused uproar, with thousands of Anglicans threatening to leave the church.
240. Threatening lions can be killed under special permit by the Fish and Game Department. Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare.
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