Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, the new Sunset Fire is menacing the well-known Hollywood Hills area.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025

New York’s defensive line is menacing, and rookie Garrett Wilson may be the best of a dynamite rookie wide receiver class; he caught eight passes for 162 yards Sunday.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2022

The absurd "gobble gobble" that warbles from their throats is menacing because, to those turkeys, they have a lot at stake.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2022

Thomas may call it conjecture, but the idea that the display of weapons is menacing, antisocial behavior that degrades public life, regardless of whether anyone gets hurt, is a very old one.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2022

Eric looks from me to Tobias and laughs, too loudly and for too long—the sound is menacing and grates against me like sandpaper.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth