How to Use menacing in a Sentence

menacing

adjective
  • One notable redesign, though, was the menacing Red Death, the queen of the dragon hive on the Isle of Berk.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 13 June 2025
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • The judge also sentenced him to a year in jail on the menacing case, to be served concurrently with the prison term.
    — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Caudill spent a month in the Adams County jail after that arrest on charges of menacing and assault.
    — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trailer then becomes more menacing, and Egerton's character looks down the scope of a crossbow.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 May 2025
  • 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
  • Another charge of felony menacing with a weapon was dismissed from his case.
    — Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Much of Bill Belichick’s menacing aura has evaporated into the ether, never to return.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 June 2025
  • Hewitt, who serves as narrator and executive producer, teases the series in menacing voiceover.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 18 June 2025

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