They command me not to desert you basely in the face of that which threatens you, but to remain at your side until the worst has been tided over, and the date originally fixed for our parting has come.
But, in fact, the men are using their utmost exertions in spite of the danger that continually threatens them.
And now comes your railway, and threatens to raze my house to the ground, to trample upon rights hundreds of years old, and to take from me what is mine by the law of justice and of God!
Now, however, a worse danger threatens him, even the bull of excommunication which they say is now being forged at Rome, and which has never yet failed to crush where it has fallen.
Tetzel threatensto do so again," said Christopher.
Koxinga, a Chinese adventurer, threatensto attack the Colony.
As a rule, the living calf should be preserved, if possible, but if this threatens to entail the death of the cow it is only in the case of offspring of rare value that its preservation is to be preferred.
It is indicated whenever there is an obstruction from any cause in the upper part of the respiratory tract which threatens the death of the animal by asphyxia (suffocation).
It hasn't anything to do with what we were talking about, but I feel as though something were going to happen, that something were coming out of the shadows, something that threatens either you or me.
Beatrice," he reminded her, "there is another tragedy beyond the one with which Dane threatens us.
As the author threatens the public with another, or more volumes, we venture to throw out a recommendation, that at least one volume may serve the purpose and do the real work of two, if he will check this propensity to unnecessary redundancy.
The courtship of Count Ericson, with which my father perpetuallythreatens me.
Inflation threatens to bring on disagreement and strife between labor and management.
Let us unite as a nation and protect the unborn with legislation that would stop all Federal funding for abortion and with a human life amendment making, of course, an exception where the unborn child threatens the life of the mother.
Too many Americans feel powerless against the influence of private lobbying groups and the unbelievable flood of private campaign money which threatens our electoral process.
We have come to see clearly that whatever destroys the forest, except to make way for agriculture, threatens our well being.
For two decades America has committed itself against the tyranny of want and ignorance in the world that threatens the peace.
That violation threatens the independence of all the small nations in Southeast Asia, and threatens the peace of the entire region and perhaps the world.
Let us at least agree we should not pass any measure, no measure should be passed that threatens Social Security.
It is my painful duty to state that in one quarter of the United States opposition to the revenue laws has arisen to a height which threatens to thwart their execution, if not to endanger the integrity of the Union.
I have conflagration enough in my own house, one thatthreatens the destruction of all I possess.
Is it in my power to escape the fate that threatens you?
We are around you, and if some danger which we cannot see threatens your old age, we shall try at least to alleviate the dread of it.
Yes, my poor Joyzelle, the dream was horrible; but now it is overcome and the proof is past, establishing a happiness which nothing threatens now, except the enemy that threatens all men.
Death does not come like this when love threatens it!
It is she whom your only hope awaited, in vain, to avert the fate that threatens your old age!
If we are helpless in the face of some great force of nature, people must be warned in time of the danger which threatens them.
If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes.
Then said I in answer 'Surely unto the good, a spirit from heaven oft speaketh, Making them feel the distress that threatens a suffering brother.
The freedom that I give is dangerous; The gods avert the doom that threatens you!
But now the State has begun to interest itself in the children, and its intervention threatens to put a rude and summary ending to the system of heredity and exclusion which has kept the canal population a class apart.
But the next man who threatens these ladies or this club with violence will have to leave the hall.
We're going to combat this new and terrible menace--this sinister flood that threatens the world--the crimson tide of anarchy!
That woman was the cause of the action for which she threatens to denounce me as a murderer.
He threatens to turn traitor, publish against the Church in public journals.
The more the awakening of this impulse threatens to force itself upon the child's attention, the more necessary is it to bring into play the measured activity of other faculties and interests.
In cases of an altogether exceptional character, danger threatensin this respect from a child's own brothers or sisters.
A great danger attendant on sexual acts in which one child is led astray by another is, of course, the moral harm which threatens the other associates of such children.
The petition for the electoral reform has already received two hundred thousand signatures, and the illustrious Arago threatens us with a million.
When a house threatens to fall, the rats scamper away; that is because they are rats.
Corinthians Chapter 13 He threatens the impenitent, to provoke them to penance.
Amos Chapter 2 The judgments with which God threatens Moab, Juda, and Israel for their sins, and their ingratitude.
And the many punishments with which he threatens transgressors.
Amos Chapter 1 The prophet threatens Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon with the judgments of God, for their obstinacy in sin.
I think you, and you alone, have the power and influence to arrest the mighty tide that threatens to overwhelm us.
It is no wonder that the great luminarythreatens "to go down to Hades and there shine among the dead," unless the full penalty is exacted for such a deed.
The crowd threatens Ulysses, who now utters to them what may be called their last judgment, announcing who he is, and his purpose to punish their crimes: "Dogs!
Still angry Neptune threatens danger and may work damage, "smiting the ship on the dark deep.
The Suitors, when they hear of the deed of Telemachus, are not only surprised but startled, and they at once recognise that a new power has risen whichthreatens to punish their misdeeds.
A further extension of 'better means of transportation' by railway or steamboat threatens more danger to the forest than it promises benefit to the public.
But even here it may be replied that the judgment which conscience threatens may be, not immortality, but extinction of being.
The three constituents of faith may be illustrated from the thought, feeling, and action of a person who stands by a boat, upon a little island which the rising stream threatens to submerge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threatens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
