Example Sentences
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Trade barriers to Chinese goods are rising, and its own economy is menaced by deflation, the outgrowth of its rampant production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
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
After all, they inhabited a precarious cosmos where the prospect of drought menaced entire civilizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
Sharks still loom large in the public imagination as deadly man-eaters, thanks to the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, in which a great white shark menaced swimmers off the coast of Massachusetts.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023
The hammer kept the gods of Asgard safe from all the dangers that menaced them and the world.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
