menaced

Example Sentences

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Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

They have been menaced for money over dropped passes and missed shots.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Not the craggy summit looking over the Owens Valley 10,000 feet below nor the nearly vertical, several-hundred-foot drop that menaced just a few steps to the right.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Sharks still loom large in the public imagination as deadly man-eaters, thanks to the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, in which a great white shark menaced swimmers off the coast of Massachusetts.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023

The Spelling Bee buzzed dangerously in and out of range of the Humbug’s wildly swinging cane as they menaced and threatened each other, and the crowd stepped back out of danger.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster