menace

In a victim impact statement, Nurse's sister Samantha Carvalho described Sabat as a "menace to society", and said the "heartlessness" of the killing was "impossible to comprehend".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

That makes it a menace in Berlin’s local government given the sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in the capital since 2023, including 2,197 last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The herky-jerky, unceasing Children of the Hydra’s Teeth are all memorable menace, their details etched deep into the film stock by the punishing midday sun of the Mediterranean.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Intrigued by the vague mixture of menace and nostalgia that the image evoked, internet users began sharing stories and speculating that the Backrooms is a hidden dimension into which people might accidentally find themselves.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

The Cold War is over, and fear of communist expansion has been replaced by the menace of international terrorism.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

These might be helpful, anodyne retail chatbots; they also might be utter menaces like Google Docs’ Gemini pop-up.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

The District of Columbia teems with nonprofits dedicated to the proposition that one thing or another menaces the citizenry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

I laughed in my sleeve at his menaces.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

The constant wave of tropical storms and hurricanes that menaced coastal Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida in the summer of 2004 turned their relaxed Southern coastal life into an apocalyptic struggle for survival.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

You see their runs are really menacing, so I felt they were knocking on the door.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Alas, “Out of the Further” merely serves up exploding televisions and cut-rate smoke machines, making this seemingly menacing purgatory feel more like a bummer way station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

At times, all he had to do to dissuade a would-be challenger was shoot them a menacing glance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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