threaten
Example Sentences
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Even if they don’t, that such a split has become plausible, meeting after meeting, marks a shift that threatens to outlast any single vote.
Agents with Israel’s foreign-intelligence service, the Mossad, are calling Iranian regime members and threatening them.
Pentagon officials have said the U.S. campaign is focused on ensuring that Iran can’t continue to threaten America and its allies.
"And we want regimes built on hatred, to never, never win in anything. And we want no such regime to threaten Europe or our partners."
From BBC
Late edits to a speech, and the resulting changes to the words on the screen, threaten to throw off his delivery.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
