In season 7 episode 4 of Charmed, Phoebe uses this term when the pirates threaten to kill them.

When the pirate threatens her, she throws him out of the window.

In the 13th and 14th century pirates threatened the Hanseatic routes and nearly brought sea trade to the brink of extinction.

When the captain refused, the pirates grabbed his wife and threatened to kill her if he did not tell them where the money was hidden.

When the Yi Sun-shin pursued the hijacked vessel, the pirates threatened to kill the tanker crew.

The captain complies after the pirates threaten to open fire on the ship and its civilian passengers.

The ship was pursued briefly by US and Dutch naval ships, but these gave up the chase when the pirates threatened the crew with guns.

The pirates threatened reprisals if Hupeh were boarded, but agreed to leave the ship if they were granted safe passage to a nearby island.

The well was, in turn, connected to the powder magazines under the piazza so the latter could be flooded in the event pirates threatened to overrun the ramparts.

If the ransom was not delivered, the pirates threatened to destroy the ships and rough up their crews.