menace

Example Sentences

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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

To hint at “Sinners’” sinister supernatural element, the designers did add tiny but menacing figures in the background.

From Los Angeles Times

Calculators, cars and probably candles and the abacus were considered a menace to society.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the Japanese American actor whose powerful glare and graceful menace made him a fixture of action films for more than four decades, has died at 75.

From Los Angeles Times

It was funny, menacing, outrageous and meaningfully serious.

From Los Angeles Times