menace

Gruff, bluff and radiating a coiled menace, he’s a marked asset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Jaws” is a fantastic film if you can suspend your disbelief about a great white being the menace of the seas.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

For Kershaw, the postseason was a widely publicized menace throughout the previous decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

That makes it a menace in Berlin’s local government given the sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in the capital since 2023, including 2,197 last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time, “the last and greatest danger to our civilization.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

EU officials said that as part of the efforts they want to step up the mandatory registration of drones across the bloc to be able to better keep track of potential menaces.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

But when a twister menaces their city, and Dad calls the boys while on the air, that goes viral and there’s actually a moral to the story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

It is a disgrace, he says, that the energy firms can send out "menaces" like that over a problem of their making.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Slow-moving brackish water, threatening to swallow whatever comes near, menaces in the background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

I laughed in my sleeve at his menaces.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Hawaii was menaced by Hurricane Fausto last month, before the storm weakened and skirted north of the island chain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025

They have been menaced for money over dropped passes and missed shots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

After all, they inhabited a precarious cosmos where the prospect of drought menaced entire civilizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

The constant wave of tropical storms and hurricanes that menaced coastal Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida in the summer of 2004 turned their relaxed Southern coastal life into an apocalyptic struggle for survival.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Known for his sharp suits, sunglasses and menacing air, Stephen Miller has long been one of US President Donald Trump's most loyal and combative consiglieres.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Especially brilliant are the contributions of puppet designer James Ortiz, particularly the menacing tendrils that encase Willie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“The Whisper Man” leans heavily on the twists and turns of its propulsive and menacing plot, which occasionally creaks like stairs to that creepy basement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The same grin can look menacing or jovial, depending on how Thatcher contorts the rest of her features.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

But the drivers seemed somehow menacing to her, with their fake friendliness and huckstering offers of a ride.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood