THREATENING in a Sentence

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Management has threatened to lock out the workforce if they do not accept the proposed changes in working methods.

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 Meanings and Examples of THREATENING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
threatening
 a.  darkened by clouds
 a.  threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Classic Sentence: (184 in 13 pages)
1  In its pain it had sought human companionship and help and it made no threatening gesture as she looped one end of the torn petticoat about its horns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  She had repulsed and refused him, yet had given him money, and he had sent threatening letters demanding more.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  She grew sullen and cried a little, threatening to go off and leave him to his fine ladies.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
6  The low, muttering sounds of his threatening voice were still audible, when the wounded foal, first rearing on its hinder legs, plunged forward to its knees.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
7  Quicker than the thoughts could follow those unexpected and audacious movements, an image, armed in the emblematic panoply of death, glided before their eyes, and assumed a threatening attitude at the other's side.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
8  Every eye rolled sullenly toward the individual indicated by the simple gesture, and a low, threatening murmur passed through the crowd.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
9  Duncan had seen the threatening action, and sprang upon his feet, with a heart which, while it leaped into his throat, swelled with the most generous resolution in behalf of his friend.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
10  Three several times did he renew his efforts to proceed, and as often was he met by the same unaccountable opposition, each interruption seeming more savage and threatening than the preceding.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
11  But a louder and more threatening growl caused him again to pause.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
12  He once more endeavored to pass the supposed empiric, scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife, or tomahawk, that was pendent from his belt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
13  Finally, the Mohican himself reappeared, divested of all his attire, except his girdle and leggings, and with one-half of his fine features hid under a cloud of threatening black.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
14  I succeeded in getting a considerable distance on my way to the woods, when Covey discovered me, and called after me to come back, threatening what he would do if I did not come.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  "Well, I reckon," was the reply of the other, as he dodged, with some alarm, the threatening honor.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
16  The soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.
17  They are threatening to impose a blockade on the country.
18  Hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people.
19  Commercial exploitation of resources threatens our survival.
20  Environmental damage threatens the whole of civilization.
21  The new legislation threatens individual liberty.
22  The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.
23  Renewed fighting threatens to derail the peace talks.
24  Argentina's erratic inflation rate threatens to upset the plans.
25  The instability of the Italian government following the tax-fraud conviction of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi threatens to end a lull in the European debt crisis and derail a nascent economic recovery.
26  Management has threatened to lock out the workforce if they do not accept the proposed changes in working methods.
27  The government has threatened to take military action if the rebels do not withdraw from the area.
28  The African National Congress threatened to withdraw from the talks.
29  The arrival of this South American predator threatened the survival of native species.
30  The payment was made to avoid threatened litigation.