The workes unfinisht lie, And walls that threatned hie.
Eschilus fore threatned by the fall of an house, when he stood most upon his guard, strucken dead by the fall of a tortoise shell, which fell out of the tallants of an eagle flying in the air?
Why answer not the double Maiesties, This friendly treatie of ourthreatned Towne Fra.
This Letter he early bid me giue his Father, And threatned me with death, going in the Vault, If I departed not, and left him there Prin.
I would my husband would meete him in this shape: he cannot abide the old woman of Brainford; he sweares she's a witch, forbad her my house, and hath threatned to beate her Mist.
Sometimes also we are threatnedwith a Meliùs inquirendum, as if our liuings were not racked high inough alreadie.
Greenuil threatned both him and al the rest that were in the ship, that if any man laid hand vpon it, he would cause him to be hanged, and so by that occasion they were compelled to fight and in the end were taken.
Then Paridell began to chaunge his theme, And threatned him with force and punishment extreme.
The Sprite then gan more boldly him to wake, 2 And threatned vnto him the dreaded name Of Hecate: whereat he gan to quake, 4 And lifting vp his lumpish head, with blame Halfe angry asked him, for what he came.
And threatned him with force & puni/hment extreme.
But when with feare, nor fauour, nor with all He else could doe, he saw himselfe esteemd, 8 Downe in a Dongeon deepe he let her fall, And threatned there to make her his eternall thrall.
Examinate answered, hee had not: and thereupon the said thing threatned to pull this Examinate in peeces, and so this Examinate thereupon marked himselfe to God, and so the said thing vanished out of this Examinates sight.
The old Woman refusing to turn out so easily as he would have her, he threatned to banish her not only from his own House, but out of all Greece, if she made any more Words upon the Matter.
The Tumults indeed threatned to abuse all Acts of Grace, and turne them into wantonnesse; but I thought at length their own fears, whose black arts first raised up those turbulent spirits, would force them to conjure them down again.
Sometimes he raued and vomytted his Gall agaynst his Gentlemen and houshold seruaunts, and threatned death vnto his guarde.
And threatned death and thousand deadly dolours To them that had purloyn'd his princely honours.
The antique Babel, empresse of the East, Upreard her buildinges to the threatned skie: And second Babell, tyrant of the West, Her ayry towers upraised much more high.
The day being come we were espied by the Spaniards, and pursued, and taken, and brought before the Vice Roy and head iustices, who threatned to hang vs for breaking of the kings prison.
Five of these Churches were found faulty, and threatned if they did not repent; the other two were without fault, and so their candlesticks were fit to be placed in the second Temple.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threatned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
