Sentence for threatened | Use threatened in a sentence

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• Why, even privacy was threatened! (8)
• Tears threatened. (10)
• He threatened Saxondom. (10)
• He threatened me yesterday. (8)
• His voice threatened to be unequal. (10)
• Sickness threatened to undermine me. (10)
• The fly jolted and threatened to lurch. (10)
• The income-tax was seriously threatened. (8)
• Others threatened Joachim with their fists. (12)
• The nibbles threatened to be snaps and bites. (10)
• Julia threatened malicious doings for the insult. (10)
• Bad company and want threatened him with destruction. (12)
• Not if perdition had threatened would I have submitted. (10)
• The secret threatened Crossjay to be out or suffocate him. (10)
• He threatened to send the company to their homes forthwith. (10)
• Pain was not unwelcome to her, but this threatened weakness. (10)
• The breeze fluttered the letter-sheets: they threatened to fly. (10)
• The maidservant of Mrs. Rushworth, senior, threatened alarmingly. (4)
• He blocked her path; he threatened to use force if she persisted. (12)
• What was their attitude towards this vaguely threatened cataclysm? (8)
• First they besought and finally threatened me, but I remained firm. (12)
• I seized the boat-hook and threatened him; I called him fearful names. (8)
• She talked to Elizabeth again and again; coaxed and threatened her by turns. (4)
• If any danger threatened, my shot averted it; that is what I was there to do. (1)
• Indeed, she had threatened more desperate things if she were not left in peace. (12)
• She threatened Clementina with the door-key, which she was carrying in her hand. (9)
• The supposition that he was, threatened her with instant and life-long bondage. (10)
• Yes, we are beginning to have another, for we are threatened with a revolution. (14)
• Mr. Rippenger, too, threatened me with carvings, though my offences were slight. (10)
• She swears you rated her like a scullery wench, and threatened to ruin Wroxeter. (10)
• Obviously, then, the threatened place was unfitting for the Countess of Fleetwood. (10)
• He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent. (8)
• Our Law-courts failing, they threatened Parliament, and for a last resort, the country! (10)
• Then, taking up his hoe again, he went back to the weeds that threatened his broad beans. (8)
• His opinion of the world affected her like a creature threatened with a deprivation of air. (10)
• They talked of ancient inroads of the sea, none so serious as this threatened to be for them. (10)
• The colonel was using his eyes with an increasing suavity that threatened more than sweetness. (10)
• My material gave out; incidents failed me; the characters wavered and threatened to perish on my hands. (9)
• He got into a hack and had himself driven to his hotel, but he never made the inquiry which he threatened. (9)
• The baker and the butcher could obtain settlement of their bills only when they threatened to bring suit. (12)
• Her father had threatened to kill her; her mother had cursed her for the disgrace she had brought on them. (12)
• The colours in which he painted her were too lively to last; the madness in his head threatened to subside. (10)
• He would rather not have thought so, for it upset his preconceptions and threatened a revolution in his ideas. (10)
• She drew closer and closer to him, and looked at him in a way that threatened betrayal of her bridal character. (9)
• He could catch the sound of her breathing close to the door, like the breathing of a creature threatened by danger. (8)
• She was threatened with dismissal unless she made full apology to him and brought back assurance of its acceptance. (9)
• The night wind came in raw and damp, and threatened to blow their lamp out, and she was obliged to shut the window. (9)
• Why, in all these years, had she never got to know his secrets, so that she might fight against what threatened her? (8)
• Boyne says be wouldent take no for an ansir, and hung on and hungon, till poppa threatened to hitt him with his cane. (9)
• The young ladies went, and Lady Middleton was happily preserved from the frightful solitude which had threatened her. (4)
• My father threatened to have her married to somebody immediately if she afflicted him with what he called her Waddyism. (10)
• He leaned on an elbow to listen; the slide threatened him, and he resumed his full stretch, determined to take her for a dream. (10)
• In the autumn of this year (1813) Lower Canada was threatened by a force of 7000 Americans, {272} commanded by General Hampton. (19)
• Inquiry showed that the big merchants had threatened to withdraw their advertisements unless the newspapers changed their attitude. (16)
• By morning we had edged along a good way and thrown up rude intrenchments at a little distance from the road, on the threatened side. (7)
• A glowing, soft, quick-breathing creature, with just that lithe watchful look of the mother cat or lioness whose whelps are threatened. (8)
• He ceased to be a visioned Alvan, and became an obscurity; her principal sentiment in relation to him was, that he threatened her peace. (10)
• The Marshal, threatened on his left flank, drew in his line from the farther Veronese heights upon a narrowed battle front before Verona. (10)
• Yesterday, for the first time, he had seriously threatened to drive the ropedancer away, and she knew that Cyriax was capable of anything. (5)
• She looked at her niece, and a dim appreciation of this revolt of life menaced by death, of youth threatened with extinction, stirred in her. (8)
• This breathing, living creature, warm and affectionate, prevented him from yielding to a grief that threatened to drag him into unknown depths. (12)
• It strives without a mark for strife; It feasts beside a famished host: The loose restraint of wanton life, That threatened penance in the ghost! (10)
• Enough it was for them to know that the enemy had declared war against Britain, and that their portion of the Empire was threatened with invasion. (19)
• She went to her room, hardening her heart, and she burst in with a flood of voluble exasperation that threatened all the neighbouring rooms with overflow. (9)
• The admiral threatened it every night for the morning, every morning for the night; and Gower had to submit to postponements balefully affecting his linen. (10)
• Only was it when Champlain threatened to withdraw his French soldiers altogether that the Huron chiefs consented to confine their barbarities to the men alone. (19)
• My friend waxes very indignant, I, agitated and crestfallen, am led back to the entrance, lectured sternly and threatened with arrest as an impostor, and ejected. (21)
• It involved possession and renunciation, ultimate veracity and deceit; it involved inferences that inflamed his senses, and possibilities that threatened to be decisive in his life. (12)

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