intimidate
Example Sentences
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"And I know that sounds intimidating, but there is no point in fighting it now."
From BBC
But the intimidating resume didn’t match the soft-spoken athlete who asked to join Bowe on daily walks in the Beijing Olympic village in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Nolte’s voice is so frail and thin that he’s difficult to understand in the role; he hardly seems like the sort of intimidating figure he’s meant to be.
When Julia Child burst onto American television in the early 1960s, French cooking—in fact, any kind of international cuisine—felt intimidating to most home cooks.
"Multiple foreign regimes are monitoring, harassing and intimidating members of our diaspora communities," he said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
