menace

Example Sentences

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Despite the high stakes, I was an absolute menace.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

His proposed addition to Marcel Breuer’s original Whitney Museum would have hovered above it with predatory menace, like an 11-story concrete praying mantis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

His Clark Kent-esque transformation, from unimposing nice guy — “the nicest guy in the entire world,” Casparius said — to smirking menace whenever the day needs saving is the stuff of comic book legends.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

It is especially a menace to anyone invested in securities such as longer-term Treasury bonds, which are “safe” in name only.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Traveling through the handiwork of the fire for so long made an unseeable menace more terrifying.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead