Words similar to menacing

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.
Most of the desert is grey and menacing, a sea of gravel out of which stark rocky mountains occasionally appear.
A menacing sea ice figures prominently in these improbable survival stories.
It also had the wit to set a menacing hero against a merrymaking villain--the line between good and evil grew scribbly.
(Click to hear Boggs' menacing combination of blues and high-lonesome mountain styling.)