menace

Example Sentences

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Standing only 5 feet 8, Johnson has established herself as a defensive menace, guarding both forwards and guards.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Despite the high stakes, I was an absolute menace.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 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

Sometimes the menace is to the crop itself — a menace that remains as long as the insecticide contamination is in the soil.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson