How to Use threshold in a Sentence
threshold
noun- He stepped across the threshold.
- If your income rises above a certain threshold, your tax rate also rises.
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What is the threshold for that?
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
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The threshold is rarely reached.
—Kevin Freking, Denver Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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No rap songs were close enough to the threshold to be able to make that jump.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
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That threshold has not budged in more than 60 years.
—Ryan Brennan may 27, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
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Some have been quick to argue that that threshold is too high.
—Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2022
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And for a moment, rates did cross that threshold.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
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That is the threshold the market now faces.
—Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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Neither the league nor the union would say what that threshold is.
—Doug Feinberg, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2026
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This plan would keep a cap in place longer, but at a higher threshold.
—Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
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Above that threshold, the microbes can’t keep up.
—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
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Time is linear now, an edge, a threshold, and there’s nowhere to go but over.
—Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
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That was half of the threshold for sales in 2024.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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If no one reaches that threshold, Ald.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
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The threshold is supposed to be secured to the floor.
—Vinod Sreeharsha september 22, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
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As of now, that threshold is $10 million a year.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
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So that threshold is the same as for impeachment.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
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The threshold for getting people to leave their house — that bar is high.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
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Adding a small ramp can replace a single threshold.
—Amy Kunst, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
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If not, gaps can emerge between the carpet and threshold.
—Vinod Sreeharsha september 22, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
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For the Mets, that threshold with Holmes would be a fourth-round pick.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 June 2026
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But these thresholds haven’t budged in almost 30 years.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
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Anything above that threshold, though, may be subject to the levy.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 14 May 2026
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Marfil, who meets the blood-quantum threshold, now has her own lease nearby.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
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The spooky fit will have trick-or-treaters take paws before crossing your threshold.
—Irene Richardson, Country Living, 20 Oct. 2022
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Houston wants that threshold lowered to five votes.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
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Statewide wages at this lofty threshold are $96,300.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
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Skubal said the World Series should be the threshold.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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The vote threshold was dropped to 60 in 1975.
—George Petras, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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