Example sentences for: menacingly

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

  • And the tabloid Daily Express found the queen "upstaged" by the actor Sean Connery, an advocate of full independence for Scotland, who received "the biggest cheer of the day" when he arrived in full Highland dress with kilt and sporran and announced menacingly, "This is only the beginning."

  • Losing his life savings to a menacingly fey Russian gangster (John Malkovich) in the first 10 minutes, Damon's Mike has you rooting for him not only to get payback from the weird Russki but to take what he can off anyone dumb enough to sit across a card table from him, accepting the rightness of the line "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

  • The grand jury's recent failure to return any indictments in the case seems an appropriate juncture, although any hopes that the story might fade away were dashed by this week's Globe cover, which shows JonBenet with the words "IT'S NOT OVER" printed menacingly across her forehead.

  • (inquiringly, or menacingly)

  • First you can't thrash them, next you can't give them a good boot in the ribs, then no summary executions of the really impertinent ones," he did not add, nor did he emphasize his point by menacingly slapping his palm with the "Fellowship Stick," as he does not call it since it does not exist.


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