THREATENINGLY in a Sentence

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1. Injury threatened to wreck his sporting career.
2. They fabricated evidence and threatened witnesses.
3. He advances, he threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors.
4. The church has been threatened with demolition for years.
5. The opposition threatened a campaign of civil disobedience.

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 Meanings and Examples of THREATENINGLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
threateningly
 ad.  in a menacing manner; aggressively
Classic Sentence: (184 in 13 pages)
1  He took a heavy paperweight and lifted it threateningly, but at once put it back in its place.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX
2  But his comrade, throwing down the boots and drawing his sword, moved threateningly toward Pierre.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
3  He sprang forward to enter, but the specter plucked him back, and waved threateningly before him a.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
4  A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
5  The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
6  Napoleon gallops past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
7  One thinks one beholds a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
8  He advances, he threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9  The fog increased the darkness, and formed round the sternlights and lanterns of the jetty a circle like that which surrounds the moon when the weather threatens to become rainy.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 49 FATALITY
10  He has deceived her in her love, humbled her in her pride, thwarted her in her ambition; and now he ruins her fortune, deprives her of liberty, and even threatens her life.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
11  My daughter is my flesh and blood, dearer to me a thousand times than those limbs which thy cruelty threatens.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  The first consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens you.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
13  It is absurd to suppose that you have two enemies, one of whom robs you, while the other threatens your life.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
14  Him thou couldst espy like one who chafes and like one who threatens, because Cocles dared to tear down the bridge, and Cloelia broke her bonds and swam the river.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
15  Aeneas thunders in arms, and threatens to overthrow and hurl to destruction the high Italian fortress; and already firebrands are flying on our roofs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
Example Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
16  He was threatened with dismissal if he continued to turn up late for work.
17  The ruffian threatened to run his victim through if he did not hand over all his money.
18  Mass violence threatened to unsettle the very foundations of government.
19  Many writers, threatened with imprisonment, have defected to the West.
20  In industry, a worker who is grossly insubordinate is threatened with discharge.
21  Senator Seymour has threatened a filibuster to block the bill.
22  The director has threatened to give his resignation in to the Board.
23  Injury threatened to wreck his sporting career.
24  The church has been threatened with demolition for years.
25  The opposition threatened a campaign of civil disobedience.
26  Commercial peat extraction is destroying many threatened habitats.
27  The country has been threatened with complete isolation from the international community unless the atrocities stop.
28  John KitzEaber, a Democrat, also threatened to veto any measure that eliminated the certificates.
29  He threatened to bring a private prosecution against the doctor.
30  They fabricated evidence and threatened witnesses.