noun
definition
An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
definition
An indication of potential or imminent danger.
definition
A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
Examples of threat in a Sentence
They are a serious threat to him.
It was meant as a threat, not a promise.
It's a common threat to all of us.
His threat was a low growl.
Patsy was still on the loose but she wasn't considered a threat to anyone.
He desperately wants to eliminate what he sees as the only threat to his activities.
The wolf finally decided they were no threat and turned his back on them, trotting away across the vast grassland.
Hopefully the threat wasn't snow.
Whether he believed it or not, Lori was a threat to their relationship.
As April slipped into May and the last threat of frost passed, she began planting them in the garden.
She's no threat to you, master.
His instincts reacted to the threat before he was fully awake.
Their threat is taught to us diplomats as an extreme negotiating tactic.
His panther-like physique and tattoos gave him all the appearance of a threat, and yet, he'd fended off her blows with gentleness he didn't have to show.
He is no threat to me.
He'd been ignoring the extent of the power available from the souls for fear of violating the Code, which he now understood was not binding in the face of a threat like Darkyn.
He's not a threat but a wanderer!
Bianca scrambled up, energized by the threat of staying in the creepy world.
Talon shoved her back into the valley with a snarled threat under his breath, and she hurried out of the trough again, breathing hard by the time she'd clambered twenty feet to the top.
So this killer senses the threat isn't finished.
He's intelligent enough to recognize the serious threat.
The Qatwali warriors had looked her over in full light, as if to ensure she was no threat, then dismissed her with a look that said she ranked lower than the tarantula cat clinging to one wall.
What threat is a blind man to you?
However, we feared no threat from either, nor did we feel they wished to identify us.
I asked her if she perceived any hint of threat.
Or they'll soon realize the threat affects us all and be back.
He's the only one who is a direct threat and that's due to our coming so close to getting him in the past.
He never questioned if Julie knowledge presented any kind of threat.
He cautioned me that Bryce might not be our only threat.
He didn't look like the threat she knew him to be.
Whatever threat she might be, he could handle it.
She wasn't the threat the Watcher made her out to be.
He'd let her live, knowing she was obligated to report everything to Damian and powerful enough to be dismissive of any threat she might cause.
Antoine probably wasn't the main threat in Europe.
She backed away as he approached, feeling the threat without needing to see it on his face.
She knew by their similar facial features they were brothers, and Romas's threat of hooking her up with one made her more self-conscious.
A'Ran said nothing, aware his forefathers had never made a threat they didn't intend to execute.
Nerves made her movements clumsy while her mind sought some forgotten information about a threat great enough to rouse the Undersecretary and his staff in the middle of the night.
He was far enough away from the Sanctuary's fortress not to cause a threat to those there, so long as the two people buffering him stayed close.
He was friendly enough, but no threat to anyone and no corporate climber.
In spite of the cloudy weather and the threat of rain, Dean ended the daylight hours listening to the hum of his bike tires on the country roads west of Parkside.
Her stomach twisted into a knot and her eyes burned with the threat of tears.
Taran shifted at the threat of the underground.
The creature stirred within her, sensing the threat.
But I do not believe these technological leaps forward are a threat to good food.
Educated people seem to pose more of a threat to autocrats.
Lightening flashed in the east and thunder rumbled a posthumous threat.
In the hilly city of Fayetteville, that was a threat during any heavy rain.
Specifically, a virus or bug passed to a pig is considered a huge threat in the medical community, because pigs can pass their diseases onto humans.
Yully listened, breathless, to the strangers who vowed to protect her from a threat similar to her father.