How to Use menace in a Sentence

menace

1 of 2 noun

• She could hear the menace in his voice.
• There was an atmosphere of menace in the city.
• Both can get up and down the court and can be menaces on defense.
  — Jake Adams, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2023
• Wilson, meanwhile, has been a menace on the boards racking up 16 in the first two games.
  — John Leuzzi, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2023
• Brooks was a game-long menace with 23 points on nine-for-17 shooting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• The wind may not be the only menace, not at a club with a record of weather headaches at its recent Opens.
  — Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Now, the sense of menace the show’s bad guy projected hit a little too close to home.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• Be warned: Scenes in this section of the story, rife with menace, are intense.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• Where’s the theater, the spectacle, the deadpan menace?
  — Carolyn Kellogg, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• With more narrative freedom, the Kens might have ruled with more menace.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• The video features the canine menace jumping over hurdles and playing with a toy.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
• And 6-foot-7 sophomore Preston Ezewiro is the bassist in the middle, a defensive menace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
• That all said, the numbers from Chainanalsys still show ransomware remains a menace.
  — PCMAG, 19 Jan. 2023
• Zeus was an easy villain to hate; the Norse All-Father Odin brings a new kind of seductive menace to the proceedings.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• The threat of a new DOJ clampdown is hardly the only menace Boeing is facing.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
• The tone is reminiscent of an earlier era, when the United States claimed the holy mantle to save the colored masses of the world from the red menace.
  — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• This malware has been a menace for businesses and agencies for ages.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Whose lives, and how they would be saved, was unclear, but the message fit the tone of the convoy event: urgent, righteous, and with a hint of vigilante menace.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
• The last episode offered a turning point and teaching moment for our leading two menaces.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 29 June 2023
• That fairly smooth shift is one reason that the menace of the Houthis has had such little impact on energy prices.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• His best impression was a gravelly drawl drawn out just so, laced with low-key menace.
  — Kevin Scarbinsky | , al, 18 Mar. 2023
• Jerome Hunter Hunter was an absolute menace against Providence the last time.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
• Tom brings the muscle and the menace as a merciless outlaw – but Heather is not your typical damsel in distress.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
• Judon is practicing like a menace again now that the Patriots have taken care of his contract.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• He was eventually banned from most stores in the Capitol Heights area, regarded as a menace.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Frequent drivers between Sacramento and the Bay Area are all too familiar with the foggy menace that can form around this time of the year — known as tule Fog.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2022
• Measuring 305 feet from pedestal to torch, Liberty was the city’s tallest structure—and a menace to migrating birds.
  — Elizabeth Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
• But behind the rimless glasses and double-breasted coats, there’s a real menace.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2023
• Nolan is mesmerizing as Augustus, a master impresario and sociopath of both charm and menace.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
• In most, Farley plays some version of himself, a mild-mannered, eccentric hero projecting varying degrees of menace.
  — Brett Martin, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024

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menace

2 of 2 verb

• The walls were cracked, the roof menacing to cave in the aftermath.
  — Fabienne Josaphat, Teen Vogue, 11 Dec. 2017
• The threat from across the 110-mile-wide strait to the west of the foundries menaces Taiwan every second of every day.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• In his 1945 film, Sinatra came to the defense of a Jewish boy menaced by a gentile mob.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The Atlantic, 10 July 2023
• One, the Rodeway Inn, was a hot-sheet motel that had menaced its neighbors for years.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• Why does Larry need windows as well as iPads to menace us?
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
• The Choptank was a sprawling place, about 30 yards off the highway, menacing under the night sky.
  — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• And with that, xHelper once again menaced the user’s device.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
• But Canada is being directly menaced in the region for the first time since the cold war.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• The blaze was the latest to menace the ancient giants, which are found in the wild only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2022
• One of the women guests is menaced by a monstrous face at her bedroom window.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• He was shot, Claire was kidnapped, she was lost at sea, attacked by ants, menaced by a snake, and nearly died of thirst.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 11 Dec. 2017
• Chávez said his agents have yet to see the latest threat menacing many parts of the country — fentanyl mixed with xylazine.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Dison tried to break in, menaced his family and threatened to burn down the home, Blakely said.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 6 Jan. 2020
• When Jenkins was 20, his stepfather menaced his mother with a gun, and Jenkins killed the man in a shootout.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• New Yorkers, who were already menaced by Ghostface this year, just can't catch a break.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
• What’s more, the Browns won’t have their best defensive player in Myles Garrett in the rematch to try to menace Jackson.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
• Rhodes, a former criminal defense lawyer, tells members of his group to obey the law and not to menace voters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2020
• The eye doesn’t exactly menace Doja Cat so much as just kind of befriend her for a few minutes.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
• In his memoir, Mr Manzoor describes the skinheads who menaced him on his way home and a pig’s head that appeared at the local mosque.
  — J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Snow shovels strain our backs, icy sidewalks menace our bones and the routine act of taking out the garbage becomes a herculean feat.
  — Mary Schmich, Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021
• Israeli citizens will stop being hostages of the fears and the anxieties that menace us morning and night.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2018
• For as long as there have been armies, they have been menaced by the ready spread of diseases like typhoid, cholera, and influenza that could tear through the ranks of troops in close quarters.
  — Dave Philipps, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• Instead, George and the other two monsters menace the city as Davis and company race around looking for a cure.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018
• An officer then punches him in the face, as the officer with the baton continues to menace him.
  — Adrian Sainz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
• The current crisis offers an opening to film the public spaces that are menaced, to preserve the sights that may vanish.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 May 2020
• Though no longer a hurricane, Ida was continuing to menace much of the Northeast.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• And much of that unit returns to menace opposing offenses in 2018.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2018
• The trade war is already menacing many economies that are dependent on exports.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• The cousins are threatened, menaced, and forcibly separated, and Seydou, his face battered and bloodied, lands in a Libyan prison, complete with a torture chamber.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Trump’s threat to the news media was actually his second attempt to menace detractors this past weekend alone.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024