threaten
verb (used with object)
to utter a threat against; menace.
will be threatening
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future progressiveof threaten.future progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
Example Sentences
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Or can you be convicted simply for recklessly disregarding the risk that it will be threatening to the recipient?
From The Verge ● Jun. 11, 2015
Is it enough to just know it will be threatening?
From The Verge ● Jun. 11, 2015
If this is so, he will be threatening the retreat of the Boers here soon.
From With Rimington by L. March Phillipps
With the end of the war the danger will be threatening; and we must meet it as we met the feebler menace of Prussian militarism—but we must meet it and conquer it with intangible weapons.
From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
