menace

Example Sentences

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Wherever she is deployed, she will be a constant menace to a backline that has been decimated by injury.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

It is especially a menace to anyone invested in securities such as longer-term Treasury bonds, which are “safe” in name only.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Mr. Frampton’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” lacks the menace and gritty attack of the original and probably should have been dropped.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Aside from the ongoing menace of nuclear annihilation, the biggest threat we’ve faced as a country was 9/11 when the country’s mainland was attacked by al-Qaeda.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

Torak wished he could share that eagerness, but all he could feel was the weight of the Nanuak at his belt, and the menace of the bear.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver