How to Use menacing in a Sentence

menacing

adjective

• 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
• Despite her menacing rhetoric, Fromme’s name did not make the list.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• The artist has turned cheap, castoff footwear into something harsh and menacing.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
• Alexander was charged with assault in the third degree and menacing in the third degree.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023
• On the way inside, a life-size mimic—with its menacing and toothy maw—is noticeable from across the room.
  — Courtney Mifsud Intreglia, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The rainbow this time feels menacing behind the shadowy white slopes.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2024
• 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
• Three days later, menacing calls began pouring in to the staff.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 2 June 2024
• There are shirts with the song title written in cutesy, swooping fonts and others that have the words wrapped around a menacing skull design.
  — Will Groff, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2024
• With six legs and a pair of curved pincers at the back, earwigs have a menacing look and may pinch people if disturbed or frightened.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 July 2024
• Who is the Sith Lord who calls himself just The Master and wears a ferocious mask studded with menacing teeth?
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
• Luke is a bit of a blank slate at the moment, but seems affable enough; Aemond is cruel and menacing.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• 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
• But that night, his cellphone started buzzing with a stream of vulgar and menacing text messages.
  — John Keilman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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 forest is dark and deep and menacing, and that menace lies at the heart of the whole corpus of the fairy tales and folktales that form the foundation of our literature.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The menacing screentime the reptile has received in the Jurassic World movies has certainly helped.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• But crime doesn’t stop, as illustrated by the episode’s opening scene: An 11-year-old girl is being chased through the streets and ultimately captured by a menacing man.
  — Erica Thompson, TVLine, 20 Oct. 2024
• Troy Morrow has been charged with menacing, a low-level misdemeanor.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024