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.
  • There’s a method to her menace.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But height was no match for fire, the menace feared above all.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Dex has been a menace for some years on the inside.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • His job is to help fight these teeny-tiny menaces.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Both can get up and down the court and can be menaces on defense.
    — Jake Adams, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Salt isn’t just a menace for metal.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Josh Jacobs was a menace on the ground.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Unknown could use more of that menace.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The alien himself is no menace to anything sound in the land.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Every once in a while, an actress will be a menace on a talk show.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Promise David has enough menace to go around.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 21 June 2026
  • Kayshon Boutte remains a menace deep.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There was an absurdity to it all that took the edge off the menace.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • The menace that this man has in a single eyebrow could power a high-rise.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • Upper stages have been a menace for other rockets of late.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Many of these agents wear masks to conceal their identity and project an air of menace.
    — The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • To feel the force and menace of a hostile enemy?
    — Kostya Kennedy, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The easy, emotional response might be that trucks are a menace.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Kyle Hamilton was a menace in the secondary.
    — Zak Keefer, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Our roads are concussion- and whiplash-inducing menaces.
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Crosby was a menace without even recording a sack.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Benson is a total menace with his puck-hounding.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • Brooks was a game-long menace with 23 points on nine-for-17 shooting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Thompson has become a top shot blocker among wings and a menace in the passing lanes.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The Bees were a menace from corner kicks under the Dane.
    — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Plemons adds both menace and pathos to this poor thing of a protagonist.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The film ratchets up Bobby’s menace and expands his role in the plot.
    — EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025

menace

2 of 2 verb
  • The walls were cracked, the roof menacing to cave in the aftermath.
    — Fabienne Josaphat, Teen Vogue, 11 Dec. 2017
  • One of the women guests is menaced by a monstrous face at her bedroom window.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • The trade war is already menacing many economies that are dependent on exports.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • One, the Rodeway Inn, was a hot-sheet motel that had menaced its neighbors for years.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • New Yorkers, who were already menaced by Ghostface this year, just can't catch a break.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • But Canada is being directly menaced in the region for the first time since the cold war.
    — The Economist, 25 July 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
  • Some argue that the only way to stop Iran from menacing the region and its people is to crush this regime.
    — Dennis Ross, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Bruce, as the stunt shark built to menace them is nicknamed, is acting up and delaying the acting itself.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Dison tried to break in, menaced his family and threatened to burn down the home, Blakely said.
    — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, 6 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Karnofsky disputes the testimony of the residents who said they were knocked down or menaced by her dogs.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Israeli citizens will stop being hostages of the fears and the anxieties that menace us morning and night.
    — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Fragmentation menaced the web from the outset.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Strong seasonal winds and dense fog also menace the mariners and occasionally cause the strait to be closed to vessels.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • When other people at her office came out of the building to help her, the groundhog menaced them, leading them to retreat inside.
    — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 9 May 2018
  • The little people are being menaced by a dark force—a force with power, money, and very few moral inhibitions.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • As the two catch up, Crudup veers from good-natured to sorrowful to bitter to menacing in a matter of minutes.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The Choptank was a sprawling place, about 30 yards off the highway, menacing under the night sky.
    — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On each round, the antagonist works to fulfill their schemes, attacks the heroes, or dispatches minions to menace them.
    — Owen Duffy, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2019

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