menaced
Example Sentences
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Sporting what they regard as a face “the color of boiled turnips,” he is first discovered sitting on a steamer trunk in the hall, ripe to be menaced by the family’s dogs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
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
Just when I thought things were losing steam, someone got menaced in an actual steam room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
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
It wasn’t my neck, but my understanding which was menaced.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
