"threaten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

threaten verbo

threaten + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 123
threaten action • threaten security • threaten one's life • threaten people • threaten the stability • threaten species • threaten violence • ...
verbo + threaten
Kolokacji: 14
threaten after rejecting • begin threatening • keep threatening • continue to threaten • stop threatening • ...
threaten + preposición
Kolokacji: 24
threatened by • threaten with • threaten to • threaten against • threaten in • ...
threaten + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 52
seriously threaten • repeatedly threatened • once threaten • directly threaten • constantly threaten • ...
  • He once threatened to fine a lawyer who was five minutes late.
  • He himself was once threatened with a gun and a knife.
  • The race that once threatened not to be is one of four the major leagues suddenly have.
  • "Elena said that you once threatened to take her out if she got me into trouble."
  • He once threatened to sue if the town did what it now has done.
  • This being her late husband in the 20th Century who once threatened to kill her.
  • She only had to be threatened once to doubt.
  • I once threatened to make her debate everything from streetcars to taxes.
  • Rogers once threatened to toss the book in the trash.
  • He still thinks about an old lover who once threatened to shoot him with a pistol.

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