menacing

Example Sentences

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A hard year followed with floods, ICE, AI, etc., menacing our native optimism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 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

It was far from the mildly menacing tone of his social media posts claiming that Greenland will be America's.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

The tone he used was clearly meant to be menacing.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026

What did Chess know about dealing with menacing older boys?

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix