How to Use menacing in a Sentence

menacing

adjective
  • Come night, the lawn proves more menacing.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The mood turns dark and menacing.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The menacing tent cities and the over-the-top drug use on city streets are gone.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Clouds of menacing shades of gray make their way across the horizon.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Seattle’s home crowd let out a menacing roar.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • For bones, spirits, and some menacing dolls, here’s where to go for a fright.
    — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The firebirds come in a menacing flock.
    — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Barlow was faces weapons and menacing charges.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Not a menacing one among the crowd of them, at least in the stories Tad told me.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 30 July 2025
  • Despite her menacing rhetoric, Fromme’s name did not make the list.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • Pulisic, at his best, is a menacing threat for opposing teams.
    — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • The artist has turned cheap, castoff footwear into something harsh and menacing.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Ramirez also pleaded guilty to one count of felony menacing.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
  • The cliffs are sharp, huge, steep; the water menacing, the wind cutting.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Having that kind of power in a bike this light is downright menacing.
    — New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Others take a more menacing tone, like a jaguar facing off with a dog in a snowy backyard.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
  • Another charge of felony menacing with a weapon was dismissed from his case.
    — Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Painted wide across the front of the truck and its open doors was a menacing, reptilian smile.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Who’s messing with the lights and filling the air with menacing rumbles and zaps?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Duffy gets a distinctive dark clown out of each of them, menacing or masochistic as the case may be.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The menacing charge is a misdemeanor, while the other two charges are felonies.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • That’s when the boys are held at knifepoint in the back of a car by two menacing Russian hoods.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Congregants were forced to walk through menacing crowds to reach the entrance.
    — Joseph Potasnik, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Three days later, menacing calls began pouring in to the staff.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • The rainbow this time feels menacing behind the shadowy white slopes.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2024
  • We are left to assume this is a drug cartel making its menacing presence felt.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • 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
  • His exact words can’t be heard in a fan video of the encounter, but his menacing tone is legible.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Alexander was charged with assault in the third degree and menacing in the third degree.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 26 June 2023

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