threateningly
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Only 5’ 8”, Robinson can appear threateningly huge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
Three of the assemblages incorporate electric warmers of various kinds, including one that dangles threateningly over four beeswax tongues that, according to the piece’s title, have “very little to say.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
The hosts eventually stormed to a 41-17 win with threateningly impressive individual performances from wings Portia Woodman and Ruby Tui.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2022
As their lines are played through speakers, the men onstage remain threateningly silent.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
And I saw the squat man shake his fist angrily over the uplifted faces, yelling something in a staccato West Indian accent, at which the crowd yelled threateningly.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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