How to use "threat" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "threat" in popular movie and book plots

  • Outraged by his wife's escapades and the mayor's threat of personal violence, Wormer organizes a kangaroo court and revokes Delta's charter.  - Animal House
  • Zeb decides he has to act rather than wait for Gant to make good his threat someday.  - How the West Was Won (film)
  • Mars demands to know why Marlowe is there; Marlowe takes no notice and states he is no threat to Mars.  - The Big Sleep
  • There Gandalf rouses King Théoden from inaction against the threat Saruman poses.  - The Two Towers
  • The Martians had been content to allow humans to share their planet, but Beecher's threat to Willis has made them reconsider.  - Red Planet (novel)
  • The Queen of Hearts dismisses her with the threat of execution and she introduces Alice to the Gryphon, who takes her to the Mock Turtle.  - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • A friendly alien diplomat of a third species intimates that the threat is not an empty one.  - The Star Beast
  • At first, the Lilliputians are hospitable to Gulliver, but they are also wary of the threat that his size poses to them.  - Gulliver's Travels
  • By far the most dangerous threat to the Tudor line during Elizabeth's reign was the Spanish Armada of 1588.  - House of Tudor
  • He signals the jets that the threat is over but not before one jet releases a bomb on the island.  - The Rock (film)
  • On 28 July, the ever-present threat of the plague again delayed the opening of Parliament, this time until Tuesday 5 November.  - Gunpowder Plot
  • There is the ever-present threat of the Yankees who steal and burn.  - Gone with the Wind (novel)
  • On 28 July however, the ever-present threat of the plague delayed the opening of Parliament until Tuesday, 5 November.  - Guy Fawkes
  • At the same time, they also planned to erase Godzilla from history so it wouldn't pose a threat to their plans.  - Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
  • However, the Drakh blackmail him into accepting a Drakh Keeper, under threat of the complete nuclear destruction of the planet.  - Babylon 5
  • Worried by the threat of the rebellion, Longshanks sends his son's wife Isabella of France to try to negotiate with Wallace.  - Braveheart

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