menacing
Example Sentences
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The beasts were, ostensibly, running a menacing communications conglomerate in a satellite tower looking over the main field of Coachella, but now they were spooked.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
It was a dogfight and Italy's dogs were just that bit more menacing.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
He is depicted relaxing, but the intensity of his gaze “gives it a menacing feel,” said Gregory Rubinstein, Sotheby’s head of old master drawings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Philip Harris-Genois, a 3D modeler at Rodeo FX, worked tirelessly for a year to perfect Demogorgon, the monster whose petaled face opens to reveal rows of menacing teeth.
From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026
Mami leaned over and lifted a small cast-iron statue from Yoyo's box: an old man sat in a boat looking down at a menacing whale, its jaws hinged open.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing menacing
The Diary of Anne Frank
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A Christmas Carol
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