"One of our ships might not seem threatening to you," Lumas noted.

Things that might seem threatening to him, we might pass off as blasé.

She said it was a mark of getting older when the unfamiliar seems threatening.

But what seemed at first like a straightforward case of gentrification threatening a local heroine turned out to be more complicated.

While such practices seem threatening to some people, others are more willing to cede some rights in the pursuit of greater security.

Perhaps because adolescents, even benign ones, often seem threatening to their elders, exaggeration of school violence is not new.

He derailed yet another Polish policy which seemed threatening to Russia.

He had a jovial Yorkshire voice; the inflection did not seem at all threatening.

He did not seem threatening in any way, but he sure as hell had no right to be there.

A month ago the country seemed to be hovering near collapse and threatening to pull down the hemisphere with it.