1759 H. Venn vii. 167 Your Minister now standing before you—chastened and corrected, of a long Season, with a life-threatening Malady.
1850 W. Wordsworth x. 268 The point of the life-threatening spear.
1948 18 Mar. ii. 13/2 Cancer, or other grave, life-threatening disease.
1997 4 June 16/4 (caption) Six suffered life-threatening injuries.