threaten
Example Sentences
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However, some of his posts could threaten international relations if taken at face-value.
From BBC
Schiltz had ordered ICE chief Todd Lyons to appear in court Friday and threatened to hold him in contempt unless the Ecuadorean was freed.
If they threaten to bore, the authors’ jaunty tone enlivens the delivery.
In that sense, “The Rise and Fall of Rational Control” is an exercise in the liberal education that was already threatened when Mr. Mansfield began teaching History of Modern Political Philosophy in the 1960s.
“Jarvis found this. He knows I’ve lied to him. He’s threatening to arrest me. We have to solve this thing now!”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
