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

Riddle of Fire Rated PG-13 for menaced kids and mumbled dialogue.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Not the craggy summit looking over the Owens Valley 10,000 feet below or the nearly vertical, several-hundred-foot drop that menaced just a few steps to the right.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

The Colonel turned, swift as a wasp’s sting, and menaced into the gloom.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White