Example sentences for: menacing

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

  • There is a guided tour that includes some memorable sound and light effects, evoking the menacing volcano most effectively.

  • It may be possible that, as Carver's fans claim, he wrote his best pieces after he ended his relationship with Lish, but Culturebox is here to tell you that Lish's version of the story Hall republished is infinitely better--sparser, cleaner, and much more menacing, which just what the story needs.

  • 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.

  • The FAA's basis for this policy was (1) the agency did not consider such items to be menacing, (2) most local laws did not prohibit individuals from carrying such knives, and (3) such knives would have been difficult to detect unless the sensitivity of metal detectors had been greatly increased.

  • 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."


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