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threatening
adjective as in menacing, ominous
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
"One of the first things I told the prime minister is that we shouldn't be threatening to sell the Americans less. We should be promising to sell them more."
Gavin Burnett is also charged with two counts of threatening behaviour and one count of "making threats to kill" in connection with threats made against three Northamptonshire Police officers.
Known as Mas'ud, the 74-year-old has claimed that three masked men forced him to make the statement after threatening him and his family.
In March, Loma Linda University’s Children’s Hospital was placed on a lock down after someone called authorities and threatening to carry out a mass shooting.
A Canadian amusement park is threatening to euthanise 30 beluga whales after the government blocked its request to send them to China.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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