menace

Tore Andre Flo was a menace for Premier League defenders not merely because of his tall, gangly frame but for the silky touches the Norwegian often showed with his giant boots.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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

For Kershaw, the postseason was a widely publicized menace throughout the previous decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

From the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh to the streets of the country's biggest cities, a common menace is causing irritation, alarm and in some cases even death.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Its sting was said to make it a serious menace to human health.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

Vectus is focused on selling to customers in the Middle East, where Iranian drones have menaced critical infrastructure, including American military bases and data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

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

Riddle of Fire Rated PG-13 for menaced kids and mumbled dialogue.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

It was not merely a question of losing Central Africa; for the first time in the whole war, the territory of Oceania itself was menaced.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Aggarwal, of Dickens Rise in Chigwell, Essex, pleaded not guilty to sending a public communication that was offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing and will stand trial in March.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

Released in June, the group’s fourth album, “Escrito en Agua,” is a bohemian tour de force — a bewitching combination of freestyle poetry, menacing Krautrock, melancholy shades of jazz and post-rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

I cannot reconcile this with the menacing figure at the schoolmaster’s desk.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque