How to Use threatened in a Sentence

threatened

adjective

• The species was added to the added to the list of threatened and endangered species in 1967.
  — Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• And why does this child feel so threatened, so stressed?
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022
• In 1999, the Puget Sound Chinook salmon was listed as a threatened species.
  — Adam M. Sowards, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
• That was the first step of the five-part recovery plan that could get the Paiute off the threatened species list within the next decade or so, Somer said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• In 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
• Hill said the confusion was over what was inside the threatened tanks — not the burning tanks.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• The threatened suspension would hurt, but not very much.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Officials who manage the Apache trout have to be cautious in their care for the threatened fish.
  — Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 9 May 2018
• These bogs are among the most diverse and most threatened places on the planet, according to botanists.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• So when Assad seemed threatened, Iran stepped in to support him.
  — Amanda Erickson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• The bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened or endangered species in 2007.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2021
• There are many reasons for our brains and bodies to feel threatened, one of which is chronic stress.
  — Grant Connelly, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The threatened plant closure made Heinz ketchup a target of consumers even before the trade spat.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Cole saw the threatened crash and signaled the engineers of the straining switch engines full speed ahead.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• In 1944, the threatened destruction of The Witch House became the catalyst that launched a new wave of restoration in Salem.
  — Sienna Fantozzi, House Beautiful, 31 Oct. 2018
• But the biggest short-term obstacle is an impasse over whether to list it as a threatened species.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• David Blaine wouldn’t feel threatened, but seeing even this old-school hocus-pocus up close was dazzling all the same.
  — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• The following year, the bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2022
• No one knows just how far the grizzly bear, protected as a threatened species, might journey from a bear-proof world.
  — Jim Robbins John Stember, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Gray whales are far more abundant and less threatened than the right whales that are Mercer’s specialty.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2021
• Just eight miles away, but in what feels a world apart from the frenzy of the Hay Festival, the tiny Talgarth library is on the threatened list too.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2017
• The bill passed the House unanimously, but a threatened filibuster kept it off the Senate floor.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2024
• The animals, which the state includes on its list of threatened and endangered species, are rare in the lower United States.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2023
• While these acts may leave cause for concern, the general public should not feel threatened.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 3 July 2017
• Check out the dune scorpions, which are thriving in Baja’s threatened sand dunes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
• All manner of fish, sea birds, and turtles get caught up in the netting and die, putting threatened species at risk, and robbing the planet of vital fish stocks.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
• And folks who have real beer bellies and pandemic beards won’t feel threatened at all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
• Mexico’s list of threatened tariffs will bring pain to peddlers of fruit, too.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• On the state level, gray wolves are no longer considered a threatened or endangered species.
  — Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2024
• The worm also poses a threat to infect endangered and threatened species, according to the researchers.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024