menace

Example Sentences

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“You saying I stink, kid?” he said, leaning over me with fake menace.

From Literature

One of L.A.’s pollution chiefs warned that “anyone who smokes a pipe, even, contributes to the smog menace.”

From Los Angeles Times

Wherever she is deployed, she will be a constant menace to a backline that has been decimated by injury.

From BBC

In the months leading up to the U.S. and Israeli campaign, senior Arab officials say Araghchi flitted between openness, at times joining friendly dinners, and menacing by appearing to imply Iran might attack its neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite the high stakes, I was an absolute menace.

From Salon