menace

Even in a career as exceptional as Mr. Malkovich’s, this performance stands out for its balance of registers; the menace and lethality intermingle with charm and vulnerability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

And a 2001 pre-presidential Donald Trump photographed against a black frame with a look of menace on his face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Gruff, bluff and radiating a coiled menace, he’s a marked asset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

In other lands they would have greeted him with kind words; but now they stood silent, each feeling a strange expectancy: something was approaching that held a hidden power — or menace.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

The book’s most edifying compilations recount the Soviet people’s unconquerable yearning to live, create and love freely, despite the daily menaces of a police state and deafening propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

Given the twin menaces of global warming and pandemic threats, “the reality, now, is that human civilization is in actual grave danger.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

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

Holding kids deemed menaces to society in a place that would be completely normal if not for the twelve-foot barbed-wire-topped fences seems like someone’s bad idea of a joke.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

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

They thought the thing that had menaced the city for years had been captured, that all would be well from hereon.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Known for his sharp suits, sunglasses and menacing air, Stephen Miller has long been one of US President Donald Trump's most loyal and combative consiglieres.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The total allotments to the three downstream states could be cut by as much as 40% through 2036, menacing their economies and communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

As strange, inexplicable happenings begin to disrupt the recording session—a mysteriously opening door, a sudden appearance of a menacing masked figure in the booth—Lucas begins to lose his emotional equilibrium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

Don Quixote learned that the man owed the boy some back pay, so he figured out how much it was and, menacing the man with his lance, ordered the farmer to pay what he owed.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios