Threateningly
['θrɛtənɪŋli]
Examples
- When the Demarch ended, he raised his head with a bitter smile on his pallid face, and flung out his hand threateningly towards the speaker. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He sprang forward to enter, but the specter plucked him back, and waved threateningly before him a. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- From every quarter of the coliseum swords flashed and men rushed threateningly upon the Zodangans. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This division should show itself as threateningly as possible on the most practicable line for making an attack up the valley. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Just keep to yourselves, and nobody'll harm ye, and he looked threateningly on his fellows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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