How to Use terroristic in a Sentence

terroristic

adjective
  • The boy was charged with seven counts of felony terroristic threat.
    — Melissa Manno, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The teen has been charged with making terroristic threats, a felony.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Deputies charged the student, who was not named, with a felony count of terroristic threats.
    — Matt Bruce, ajc, 18 Dec. 2021
  • All three face third-degree felony terroristic threat charges.
    — Stephen English, star-telegram, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Price was booked on a first-degree felony charge of making terroristic threats.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
  • All three students have been charged with a felony terroristic threat, the school district said.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • The teen faces a terroristic threat charge, according to jail records.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The 16-year-old was charged with making a terroristic threat.
    — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • He was arrested and charged with one count of making a terroristic threat.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 16 May 2022
  • He initially had been charged with a felony count of making terroristic threats.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Gillum was wanted on charges of making terroristic threats.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Maybee faces charges of making a bomb threat and making terroristic threats, deputies said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Choochongkol has been charged with making a terroristic threat, a third degree felony.
    — Alexandro Luna, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The 16-year-old is charged with making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • He has been charged with making terroristic threats and remains in police custody at this time.
    — CBS News, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The 16-year-old was charged with making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The two were arrested on charges of terroristic threats, police said.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Michael Valadez, 39, faces a felony charge of making a terroristic threat.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
  • Dykstra, who is charged with making terroristic threats and drug offenses, is due back in court next month.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • He's come out and proclaimed a million times on TV that this was not a terroristic act.
    — Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • The student was charged with a felony, but the case was dropped due to an Alabama law on terroristic threats.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 1 June 2023
  • The teen is facing a felony charge of terroristic threatening.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • He is charged with terroristic threat against a peace officer/judge, according to court records.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025
  • They were charged with possessing a firearm on school premises and making terroristic threats.
    — al, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Christopher Moynihan was hit with a felony charge of making a terroristic threat.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2025
  • She was charged with making a terroristic threat, according to the police.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Moreover, if the black bloc is terroristic, then so is the aftermath of some major sporting events.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 2 June 2020
  • The three minors were charged with suspicion of making terroristic threats, which is a class 3 felony.
    — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Neither student has been named, though the 16-year-old has been charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • No device was found, and the police later arrested a man on a charge of making a terroristic threat.
    — Dave Montgomery, Manny Fernandez and Matthew Haag, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018

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