menace
Example Sentences
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And out of the dark beneath the trees surged a deeper darkness: a huge rampaging menace in bear form.
From Literature
His Clark Kent-esque transformation, from unimposing nice guy — “the nicest guy in the entire world,” Casparius said — to smirking menace whenever the day needs saving is the stuff of comic book legends.
From Los Angeles Times
It is especially a menace to anyone invested in securities such as longer-term Treasury bonds, which are “safe” in name only.
From MarketWatch
Long before apps like Alarmy, makers of alarm clocks recognized that some of their products needed a tinge of menace.
“Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas and our allies throughout the world,” he said in a recorded statement Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times
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