threat

When communism was a threat, it was construed as a communist plot.

But this war jumps from city to city, depending the threat of the day.

But his solution to this metastasizing threat is, in some ways, counterintuitive.

“The threat streams to U.S. interests and Western interests are off the chart,” he said.

The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.

That cold, sneering voice, with its note of threat, was like a hand of ice upon his overheated brain.

Her voice was stern; it bore to the girl's ears a subtle, unworded repetition of the threat the Marquise had already voiced.

Was it the threat of Tony's near arrival that made her confession—and his dismissal—at last inevitable?

Recall his threat when coughed down on the occasion of his maiden speech in the House of Commons.

It throve because it came with the tempting bribe of Heaven in one hand, and the withering threat of Hell in the other.