threaten
Example Sentences
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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
António Guterres said the UN faced a financial crisis which was "deepening, threatening programme delivery", and that money could run out by July.
From BBC
Soon after Warsh arrived, the Fed faced a historic challenge in 2008: a deep financial crisis that threatened to spin the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
