intimidating
Example Sentences
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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
She added: "We are providing record funding for security at synagogues, Jewish schools and community centres. I will go further to strengthen police powers so they can crack down on intimidating protests."
From BBC
The world was so intimidatingly large, but a single book had connected it for him.
From Literature
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