threaten
Example Sentences
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The soaking rains may threaten coastal cities with flash floods and nightmarish traffic, but they promise sweet relief for snow-starved thrill seekers from Lake Tahoe to the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times
Higher Japanese rates could lead them to sell Treasuries—and that looks to be happening on Monday, with the U.S. 10-year yield jumping and threatening stocks to start the week.
From Barron's
The result is a powerful meditation on the roles of disability, autonomy and privilege in the shaping of literary making in an age when art itself is increasingly threatened by machines.
From Los Angeles Times
I've heard a phrase a lot over the past few weeks, one that comes up when England seem to be threatening to do well.
From BBC
That threatens to unravel employment gains made by Black workers during and after the pandemic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
