menace
Example Sentences
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We climb to the main deck and look out at the sea, where choppy waves rise up, menacing as swords.
From Literature
“No, I’m picturing hundreds of your hideous mug menacing the entire world,” Door said.
From Literature
It was far from the mildly menacing tone of his social media posts claiming that Greenland will be America's.
From BBC
The tone he used was clearly meant to be menacing.
From Salon
Cignetti’s gotten a lot of attention for his bravado and his menacing sideline presence, in which he paces and stares like a customer who thinks the butcher’s hiding the best T-bones.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
