Threaten means: To make a threat against someone; to use threats. Related words include warn or exist. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Threaten in practice.
Threaten in a sentence
Related words
Threaten meaning
- To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
- To menace, or be dangerous.
- To portend, or give a warning of.
Example sentences (20)
It was the first national Olympic body other than Ukraine to threaten to boycott rather than compete against Russia.
A Royal Navy destroyer has been sent to the Red Sea as attacks on commercial ships threaten global supply chains.
It came as strikes and staff shortages threaten to wreak havoc for travellers at Heathrow over the bank holiday.
Chin’ono, who once changed his own name 4 times in the space of 24 months, used the term, “death,” to threaten Shadaya.
He added that the U.S. should leverage the military presence and threaten the country to change its policies.
It suffers from several strange narrative choices that bog down the story and threaten audience's suspension of disbelief.
Alongside Devos the Devastator, Klaw, and Huntara, Paibok helped found the Fearsome Foursome to threaten the Fantastic Four.
He asserted that rising seas threaten the very existence of some low-lying communities and even countries.
Second-seeded Catawba out-shot the Bulldogs 17-3, and the third-seeded Bulldogs (14-4-1) didn’t threaten in the second half.
At one point, Anakin takes up a red lightsaber - and his influence seems to threaten to turn Ahsoka to the dark side as well.
He said he thought the invective was the product of frustration, although no one was entitled to threaten anyone in this way.
Pfaadt escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the first, and the Reds didn’t threaten again until the homer-fest in the sixth.
Good for sustainability, perhaps (less laundry), but hotel unions are concerned the changes could threaten housekeepers’ jobs.
It would be a unique challenge to make our movie villains threaten a six-foot professional fighter with a history of violence.
Allowing the Melians to remain neutral would set a dangerous precedent and threaten Athenian hegemony.
Anya Taylor-Joy plays Thomasin, the eldest daughter who is caught in the middle of the sinister forces that threaten her family.
In a game of few clear-cut chances, it was the visitors – who play one level above their opponents – who were first to threaten.
Moreover, there is strong resistance against the regime in Chin State which will threaten the project.
A bad video game plot twist can threaten to undo everything that came before it – ruining everything.
Majority-minority districts—which enabled white conservative Republicans to get on the map in the South—now threaten their power.
Common combinations with threaten
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to threaten 45×
- threaten the 40×
- threaten to 38×
- and threaten 20×
- that threaten 18×
- could threaten 10×
- would threaten 8×
- threaten their 8×
- threaten her 6×
- can threaten 5×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word threaten. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.