The wave of arrests also threatens to fill up the new wings at the central prisons.

The wind is howling violently, and huge waves threaten the ship.

She had been feeling fine; at this, the wave of faintness threatened to return.

A wave suddenly appears and threatens to drown them all.

A huge wave of desire threatened to make her faint.

Every wave threatened to yank me away from it.

The wind was high, and the waves continually threatened the safety of my little skill.

So close were we that each mountainous wave threatened to capsize us.

A wave of terror threatened to drown her first.

The island continued to shift and in 1948 this second lighthouse was demolished, as the waves threatened to bring it down.