Examples of under threat in a Sentence
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In April, the Biden administration signed a law that orders ByteDance to sell TikTok within nine months under threat of a ban.
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Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 8 May 2024
On Golem Grad, a lake island in North Macedonia, Dice snakes under threat from birds play dead by going rigid or lax, smearing poop and musk on themselves, and even bleeding from their mouths.
—Harri Weber, Popular Science, 8 May 2024
However, a sanctioned encampment in Sacramento offering few services is under threat after the local district attorney labeled the site a public health hazard and sued the city to close it.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
The one incumbent under threat tonight was Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz in the 5th District, but Spartz held off state Rep. Chuck Goodrich in her primary.
—538 Staff, ABC News, 7 May 2024
There were reports on campus that journalists were not allowed out of Pulitzer Hall, including Columbia’s own student journalists and the dean of the School of Journalism, under threat of arrest.
—Matthew Salesses, TIME, 7 May 2024
Numerous other nearby buildings in the South Park area also were under threat of serious fire.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
Recommended Peace Gaza cease-fire talks: Egypt, US hopeful a formula has been found
Soon, laïcité was under threat everywhere.
—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
But in 1982, long after Nixon left office under threat of impeachment, the court ruled in his favor in Nixon v. Fitzgerald, a civil case brought by an Air Force analyst who said he was fired in 1970 in retaliation for his criticism of cost overruns.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 8 May 2024
On Golem Grad, a lake island in North Macedonia, Dice snakes under threat from birds play dead by going rigid or lax, smearing poop and musk on themselves, and even bleeding from their mouths.
—Harri Weber, Popular Science, 8 May 2024
However, a sanctioned encampment in Sacramento offering few services is under threat after the local district attorney labeled the site a public health hazard and sued the city to close it.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
The one incumbent under threat tonight was Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz in the 5th District, but Spartz held off state Rep. Chuck Goodrich in her primary.
—538 Staff, ABC News, 7 May 2024
There were reports on campus that journalists were not allowed out of Pulitzer Hall, including Columbia’s own student journalists and the dean of the School of Journalism, under threat of arrest.
—Matthew Salesses, TIME, 7 May 2024
Numerous other nearby buildings in the South Park area also were under threat of serious fire.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
Recommended Peace Gaza cease-fire talks: Egypt, US hopeful a formula has been found
Soon, laïcité was under threat everywhere.
—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
But in 1982, long after Nixon left office under threat of impeachment, the court ruled in his favor in Nixon v. Fitzgerald, a civil case brought by an Air Force analyst who said he was fired in 1970 in retaliation for his criticism of cost overruns.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
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“Under threat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/under%20threat. Accessed 12 May. 2024.
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