Example sentences for: menacing

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

  • It's true that he's drawn to machinery, but his favorite devices are typewriters and accordions and siphons--nonthreatening mechanisms that lack the depersonalizing, menacing quality of, say, Fritz Lang's nightmarish film Metropolis . Although Léger was a Communist, with pronounced sympathy for the working man, his experience of factory conditions apparently was limited to what he'd heard from his fellow card-playing soldiers.

  • Green Mile 's fear of the real world is the real political correctness: Every white guy in the movie is a warm, decent sort who regrets any motion that's vaguely menacing.

  • A menacing sea ice figures prominently in these improbable survival stories.

  • It was truly menacing.

  • Would Lemann use such a menacing phrase to describe a liberal?


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