menace
Example Sentences
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Wherever she is deployed, she will be a constant menace to a backline that has been decimated by injury.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 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
Mr. Frampton’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” lacks the menace and gritty attack of the original and probably should have been dropped.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
The dim-witted creature knew exactly who had dangled from a rope ladder hastily lowered from a balloon and landed in the same spreading elm branches that the fluffy-tailed, beady-eyed menace called home.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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