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

After all, they inhabited a precarious cosmos where the prospect of drought menaced entire civilizations.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

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

That was another time of comparative coolness but menaced by the coming of the dark.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding