"threaten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Almost a decade later, another case is supposedly threatening to destroy the W.T.O.
- Matt was disciplined several times at school, once for hitting a classmate with a chain, another time for supposedly threatening a fellow student with a piece of a plastic mirror.
- Ratnik supposedly threatens widespread destruction (though his demands are never heard); his first line, after a maniacal laugh, is "You cannot stop me, Mr. Newspaper Editor!"
- The point of all this was to break up a monopoly that supposedly threatened the dominance of the Third Reich.
- Lardelli e.g. had to appear at court, because he supposedly threatened an opponent of his project to kill him.
- At one point he supposedly threatened to shoot the fingers off any musician who looked at sheet music instead of playing by feeling.
- These statistics speak for themselves and claims that waves of refugees are supposedly threatening Europe and that we should pull up the drawbridge are groundless.
- More recently, there has been great controversy over them, and it has been suggested that they should be culled, or eradicated, as they supposedly threaten the capercaillie population.
- The subject was "the most recent 'monster' that supposedly threatens democracy - the '527 organizations' so named for a section of the tax code."
- The W.M.D. that supposedly threatened us did not exist.
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