menace
Example Sentences
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He is depicted relaxing, but the intensity of his gaze “gives it a menacing feel,” said Gregory Rubinstein, Sotheby’s head of old master drawings.
A tank rumbled down the street, a mass of menacing metal.
From Literature
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But there was a grim menace out here, not only in the master’s manner but in the desolation of our surroundings.
From Literature
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They were far less menacing than the roving patrols of soldiers and police officers that were ubiquitous in France.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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