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
• For years, Maggie has been plagued with strange dreams about a little girl, a menacing man, and a swirling blue vortex of smoke and fire.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Herbert was sacked six times in the first half, including three by the Browns’ menacing Myles Garrett.
  — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 4 Nov. 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
• Egerton and Bateman are both fantastic in this, and who knew Michael Bluth could be this level of menacing?
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Dec. 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
• Enter the Chameleon, a nefarious master of disguise who's been menacing poor Spidey even longer in the comics than his sibling Kraven.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
• The film is visually and sonically explosive, and the scene with Jesse Plemons as a menacing soldier is unforgettable.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025