Example sentences for: menace

How can you use “menace” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When Janet Maslin announced she was leaving the times, the New York Observer headline said (quoting from memory) "Liked Phantom Menace , Hated Gummo ." As if, 'nuff said.

  • But even if you do not understand the preceding, you probably feel the tension between words conveying force, strength, and menace, such as power users, abort, dump, head crash , and munged , with words suggesting vulnerability, frailty, and humor as a defense against such powerlessness, in words like technoweenie, nerdettes, user-friendly , and DWIM (for do what I mean, a mythological key that would make the computer do what you cannot figure out yourself).

  • And the people spending weeks in line to see The Phantom Menace are, as far as anyone knows, genuine fanatics rather than hirelings.

  • Since The Phantom Menace , he's looked increasingly grim--he seemed to spend most of the running time of The Haunting trying to visualize himself in another, better movie.

  • "Dennis the Menace , for instance, is the most shallow.


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