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.

  • nyambizi , or submarine, implying that the HIV-positive person is stealthy, menacing, and deadly [3,13].

  • There was a time, back in the '60s, when psychiatry appeared to loom over vulnerable minds with a kind of menacing grandeur.

  • It's a bedroom voice, menacing but seductive, with over-deliberate diction that implies, "I'm so powerful, so coiled, so masculine that I have to modulate my tone--or else."

  • (Click to hear Boggs' menacing combination of blues and high-lonesome mountain styling.)


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