How to Use menacing in a Sentence

menacing

adjective
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  • The scene opens on a dense forest bathed in a menacing orange glow.
    — Nick Haramis Lise Sarfati Delphine Danhier, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Painted wide across the front of the truck and its open doors was a menacing, reptilian smile.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The menacing charge is a misdemeanor, while the other two charges are felonies.
    — Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In one playful selfie, Harbour feigned a menacing face at his wife and put his hand in her face in the shape of a claw.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Alexander was charged with assault in the third degree and menacing in the third degree.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
  • As a young man, the future king grew up exiled in a realm overrun by menacing demons and monsters.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • Bruce Payne portrayed the menacing villain in the 1999 sequel.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • The rap squat came from prison subculture and was first called the prison pose, supposedly a crouch meant to look menacing.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The group convened late, after much of the hospital had cleared, to walk through the results of a PET scan that would reveal the reach of her menacing breast cancer.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The neighborhood’s peace is disrupted when a gang of menacing neighbors take over the street.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Aug. 2023
  • On our dark walks to the meditation hall, the morning chill sunk deep into my bones, and the silent stretch of land surrounding the site loomed menacing and black.
    — TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • If that's not menacing enough, Blake and Everett have been receiving calls that something has to kill them before the next full moon.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The sound features elements of U.K. drill, a dark, menacing genre from South London, iconic for its ski masks and gun sounds.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2023
  • There is a menacing villain Each Kung Fu Panda movie has its own scary villain.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The teaser doesn’t show too much, except a glimpse of a faun, and perhaps a menacing minotaur, two fixtures from the mythical world of Greek gods.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In the movie, the pair are tasked with capturing a menacing beast who’s been eating the veggies from everyone’s gardens.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Amid Putin’s seeming desire for rapprochement with the West, though, there were menacing signs.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • The threat that Disney will need to pay an outrageous number is less menacing than the delay Comcast can cause.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 July 2023
  • Miller began taking part in zombie walks in Phoenix and fashioned a homemade costume with a menacing mask and a fake Gatling gun, said Schwartzkopf.
    — Paul Larosa, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The comical episode suddenly turns chaotic when the dark, menacing form of a large shark appears and starts swimming toward the fish.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Two of the attackers have been charged with assault and menacing as a hate crime; four others remain at large, according to the complaint.
    — Mark Morales, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The house is stuffed with ridiculous relics and over-the-top finery; the grounds offer welcoming expanses of nature and a menacing labyrinth of high bushes.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2023
  • A lot of the comments in the posts and videos are snarky, like a scene showing a menacing older woman in a housedress and slippers who is also holding hammers in both hands.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Every soon-to-be father at the table scanned the baby-less bed for something sharp, hard or remotely menacing.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2023
  • Bode Miller and company looked as epic and towering as the menacing peak rising behind them.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 19 July 2023
  • Cue Ozzy spinning around in his chair looking sweetly menacing, what with his tattoos, handful of rings, long hair and raccoon eyes.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Despite its menacing sounding nickname and size, experts say 12P/Pons-Brooks doesn't pose any threat to humans.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Add to the third-round setting a severely sloped 15th green; three massive, menacing bunkers surrounding the target area; and knotty, knee-high grass all around.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 18 June 2023
  • Read on to learn more about this menacing creature and other giant prehistoric snakes.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Dafoe's menacing performance as the Green Goblin cements his place as one of the most memorable comic book villains of all time.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023

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