Example sentences for: menaced

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

  • The sharp-focus treatment of certain details--light glinting on the uneven, Ali McGrawish front teeth; the asymmetrical eyes; the squashed nose that looks as if it's been broken at least once--give a victimized, menaced quality to the composition.

  • Despite their efforts, however, Ibiza was menaced by so many hostile flotillas that the locals took the unprecedented step of forming their own band of privateers.

  • In the scene in which he heals Patricia Clarkson, he hovers over her bedridden form in a way that's meant to summon up rape fantasies of fragile white Southern flowers menaced by darkies--and to miraculously invert them.


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