Explore Threat through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like menace or mortal. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Threat in a sentence
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Threat meaning
- An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
- An indication of potential or imminent danger.
- A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
Synonyms of Threat
Using Threat
- The main meaning on this page is: An expression of intent to injure or punish another. | An indication of potential or imminent danger. | A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
- Useful related words include: menace, mortal, somebody, someone.
- In the example corpus, threat often appears in combinations such as: the threat, threat to, threat of.
Context around Threat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Threat
- In this selection, "threat" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cyber, security, deadly, report, actors and intelligence stand out and add context to how "threat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2023 global threat report, a grave threat to us, pose threat, bomb threat and threat posed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "threat" sits close to words such as review, driver and adding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with threat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The trans community is under threat, and our support system is under threat from anti-DEI legislation. (17 words)
Especially a person with a gun who can act on that deadly threat with their own deadly threat. (18 words)
I believe climate change is a national security threat, an environmental health threat, an economic threat and a threat to our existence, ultimately. (23 words)
The Generative AI tech certainly makes Siri look tame, though I don’t think Siri is under immediate threat; I suspect ChatGPT will first eat up the bot business, making it an immediate threat to Apple Business Chat and others in that space. (43 words)
Gareth Jones, President and CEO of the Canada Safety Council, stressed the seriousness of fatigue as a road safety threat, stating, “Fatigue is a serious threat to road safety, and it’s a problem that affects everyone on the road. (40 words)
Entitled “‘Prepare the Shelters’: With Hebrew Threat, Iran Unveils Armed Drone Which Can Hit Israel,” ‘s article is attributed to both AP and Reuters, with the information on Iran’s threat to attack Israeli communities clearly originating with Reuters. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Gun grabbers are a threat, Black Lives Matter is a threat, Democrats are a threat, illegals are a threat, Muslims are a threat" etc, etc.
I believe climate change is a national security threat, an environmental health threat, an economic threat and a threat to our existence, ultimately.
For example, structural models are used to understand the threat types, behavior models to understand what that threat does, and contextual models to trace the origin of the data underpinning a particular threat.
The Canadian cyber threat report further claims, “We assess that Indian state-sponsored cyber threat actors likely conduct cyber threat activity against government of Canada networks for the purpose of espionage.
So far what Nasser has done amounts to a threat, a grave threat to us and to others, which certainly cannot be ignored; but it is only a threat, not in my opinion justifying retaliation by war.
But, as if that threat wasn’t enough, she and her people are now facing another threat in the form of a sand shroud that has decimated Gerudo Town.
But I do not believe at present, as things stand here at the podium today, that we are facing some national security threat — ongoing national security threat.
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Entitled “‘Prepare the Shelters’: With Hebrew Threat, Iran Unveils Armed Drone Which Can Hit Israel,” ‘s article is attributed to both AP and Reuters, with the information on Iran’s threat to attack Israeli communities clearly originating with Reuters.
Especially a person with a gun who can act on that deadly threat with their own deadly threat.
Gareth Jones, President and CEO of the Canada Safety Council, stressed the seriousness of fatigue as a road safety threat, stating, “Fatigue is a serious threat to road safety, and it’s a problem that affects everyone on the road.
Hastings High School was not the only victim of a mysterious threat against the school last weekend, as now Prescott High School has also issued a statement regarding a threat of violence at the school.
It could be argued that, particularly having created what some see as the existential threat of artificial intelligence, that man is one of the biggest - if not THE biggest threat to humanity.
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Scores of officers have expressed concern for their safety in Northern Ireland where police are under threat from terrorists, with the current assessed level of threat at severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.
The Generative AI tech certainly makes Siri look tame, though I don’t think Siri is under immediate threat; I suspect ChatGPT will first eat up the bot business, making it an immediate threat to Apple Business Chat and others in that space.
There’s no doubt about it: A growing number of threat actors are becoming “cloud-conscious,” as CrowdStrike researchers put it in their 2023 Global Threat Report.
The threat forced the closure of the stadium on Friday as police evacuated the ground, its offices and the club shop before carrying out checks after Leeds received a threat via social media.
The trans community is under threat, and our support system is under threat from anti-DEI legislation.
This is a real threat and I urge all Guyanese, including the Government to take this threat more seriously than we appear to be taking it.
Phrases with threat
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with threat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the threat 68×
- threat to 55×
- threat of 41×
- threat and 16×
- threat is 14×
- that threat 9×
- threat in 9×
- of threat 9×
- under threat 8×
- threat that 8×