menace

But he’s an absolute menace to compete against and, yes, to officiate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Despite the danger and pervading sense of claustrophobia, Ukrainian soldiers have told their officers they often preferred this subterranean fighting to war above ground, where drones are a constant menace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Jaws” is a fantastic film if you can suspend your disbelief about a great white being the menace of the seas.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

During the first four days of Lakers training camp, Thybulle was frequently listed as one of the players who has been a menace on defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Elisha, who had started down the aisle toward the back room, turned to stare at John with astonishment and menace.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

When these run out of legitimate purpose, they become actual menaces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

These might be helpful, anodyne retail chatbots; they also might be utter menaces like Google Docs’ Gemini pop-up.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

EU officials said that as part of the efforts they want to step up the mandatory registration of drones across the bloc to be able to better keep track of potential menaces.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

It is a disgrace, he says, that the energy firms can send out "menaces" like that over a problem of their making.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Speaking from the White House, President Eisenhower said he sent troops because “Mob rule in Little Rock menaces the very safety of the United States and the free world.”

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Hawaii was menaced by Hurricane Fausto last month, before the storm weakened and skirted north of the island chain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

In the war’s heady early months, after Russian forces menaced Kyiv but then were forced to pull back, people flocked to the square to take selfies, and children played tag between the hulking wrecks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

It wasn’t my neck, but my understanding which was menaced.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

And Dastmalchian, who portrays Bison with an emphasis on sniveling evil, struggles to quietly undercut the character’s cartoonishly menacing getup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

All of which is to concede that, while Cohn’s historic significance is, at best, minimal, his status as a menacing specter in the minds of liberal journalists has only grown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“The Whisper Man” leans heavily on the twists and turns of its propulsive and menacing plot, which occasionally creaks like stairs to that creepy basement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The same grin can look menacing or jovial, depending on how Thatcher contorts the rest of her features.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

A tank rumbled down the street, a mass of menacing metal.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman