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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241. I wait, hands held high, elbows still threatening to drip one last drop.
242. The father, so angered by the compulsory admission, became threatening and abusive to residential staff.
243. Getting ashore is tricky, with the sea threatening to destroy the boats on the boulders at the edge.
244. But the phantoms of boards and unplayed moves gradually return to haunt Luzhin, threatening his sanity.
245. Apparently the strip club owners were threatening to put in dart boards and pool tables.
246. And kicking against an impersonal organisation was more fun and less threatening than confronting the old man directly.
247. He stands up and starts threatening Paul with an imaginary cattle prod.
248. The birth takes place under threatening skies. Opposition parties are boycotting the vote.
249. But she establishes her ambiance well: This Mississippi heat is as thick and threatening as Bubba breath.
250. Two bills and a threatening letter about a parking ticket.
251. Bosses are threatening to axe them - but keeping faith in Eldorado.
252. Jack Frost was threatening to kill the new plants.
253. Terrorist attacks were threatening to destabilize the government.
254. The light in the car was dim , and that too ,[sentencedict.com] enhanced the threatening atmosphere.
255. Dominance is maintained by aggressive or threatening behaviour on the part of one animal.
256. He has acquired, by dint of threatening to resign, a directorate-general with about 150 officials.
257. 'Still,'said Darnay,'you know how gloomy and threatening the sky is.'.
258. The strikers still carried on, in spite of the threatening attitude of the colliery owner.
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