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Sentence Examples There are menacing hyenas and a maggoty baby, but these aren't the moments where you feel Schrader is strongest. I've never liked the lake with its menacing suggestion of depth and its ability to attract noisy watercraft. He and pilot Russell Phillips managed to survive 47 days on a rubber raft with no provisions amidst menacing swarms of sharks. Only Morello sounds truly menacing because of the agita he gets from his rival. The second world war was a far more menacing conflict with far more dangerous foes. The Livingston attacks were now far more menacing and they drew level two minutes later. Expression is not expelled with menacing pitchfork alla Stravinsky nor repressed like Ravel. It's hard to have a really menacing antagonist when the antagonist isn't ever really sure what it is he's trying to accomplish. Ozone is especially menacing when it reacts with molecules involved in the functions of living organisms. Some of the characters are menacing in appearance and therefore limit their approachableness. They assign him to a bleak Romanian province called Transylvania, where vampires have been menacing a village in the shadow of a brooding castle. His hair was long and wild, with loose strands and long bangs that covered his menacing eyes. All too often, what would have formerly passed for simple rudeness or vulgarity is now labelled something much more menacing. There is something less intense, less menacing, he certainly looks a lot less brooding. It was the menacing warning that Liverpool may just have a rare touch of magical invention up their sleeve. A menacing voiceover says that some people don't bother to tax their car, but that that never hurt anyone, right? Wild, 55, pleaded to third-degree menacing, a misdemeanor in exchange for a conditional discharge. Tyler spoke in a quiet, menacing voice, his tone threatening anyone who dared defy him. Dayra stood, menacing as always, and stared down at the crumpled mass lying on a pile of decaying straw in front of her, chained to the wall. Rain cascaded from menacing thunderclouds, but she ignored it, racing to the front porch of the store. Show More Sentences A authoritative, though not particularly menacing voice was heard, speaking through a megaphone. The sky has lightened and the snow has stopped, but a menacing wall of clouds is heading our way fast. The light barely illuminated the forest around them and it was very menacing at this late hour. He aimed his menacing, brooding dark brown eyes directly into her own scared blue ones. Great rock fragments jutted out of the side, giving the castle an even more menacing look. The picture is grainy but that actually enhances the slightly menacing atmosphere. The second door, made of a shiny metal resembling stainless steel, had a cold, menacing look and feel to it. Carter throws me a menacing look, but is unable to follow up with a threatening comment, because the bell has just rung. His great fleet touched at the Orkneys, moved south to the Tyne to join with Tostig, and then entered the Humber, menacing York. I fervently attacked my menacing hide of beastly shagginess and managed to pull off a state of continuous hairlessness for over a year. The group is hired by the menacing crime lord who speaks sharply and carries a big gun. Alongside these menacing words is a call for self-sacrifice, in order that democracy should prevail. It's the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing red dot on her abdomen. To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy. Start it up and the engine quickly settles into a menacing mid-range growl, while blipping the throttle makes the exhaust bark. With strange eruptions of brassy skronk and menacing tribal beats, it's heavy, scary, sonically daring. A music box plays reluctantly to introduce a menacing drone that dominates the piece despite the protests of a scraped guitar. As they went even deeper into the forest the creatures got more menacing looking. But without rehabilitation, the juvenile car gangs are likely to return from the modern day borstals, more menacing than before. Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him. Show More Sentences Outside, the sky was muddled with the darkest blues and somber blacks, though it did not look menacing. It seems I am now safely in my home, far from the menacing arms of the vicious beast which drove me from the wild! This has given English identity a slightly menacing face, and consequently has discouraged the celebration of Englishness. It was a menacing stare-down caught by the army of photographers covering the packed proceedings. There will be the usual posters of film stars and starlets looking alternatively menacing and pouting. The guard was also a few handspans thicker and had quite the menacing expression. They walked up the steps and paused in front of a wooden door that appeared, to Justin at least, very menacing and inhibiting. We were carded and banded by a couple of menacing, ghetto looking bouncers. At that very moment as if on cue, somewhere in the distance a wolf let out a menacing howl. I tried to sleep on the hour-long ride, but the harsh, strident sound became louder and the long menacing finger pointed angrily. The man's mass seemed to both hinder his movements and create a more menacing movement at the same time. The youngest children were always afraid of him, for he looked so odd and menacing with his one eye, crooked back, hooked nose and black cloak. In a SAC area if a farmer wishes to kill off the ivy that is choking his trees or menacing his buildings, he is not free to do so. You can just imagine the menacing yet horror-stricken look on my face when I found my wedding gown in pieces at my second dress fitting. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. It was human in base construction, a platform for large, menacing pectorals and biceps. New Labour ideologues and their supporters want us to believe that youth crime is something new and particularly menacing. I felt I had finally penetrated William's menacing mask and gained some understanding of the workings of his mind. Allied to the professional and vocational dreams are fatidic nightmares and menacing riddles. The uneven pavement was constructed of badly cracked flagstones and potholed by menacing holes where black water festered from past rain showers. Show More Sentences I would suggest, however, that today's communist pinups are attractive women who display a menacing demeanor similar to their ancestors. He is also capable of generating swing through the air, as witnessed by his menacing inswinging yorker, which he will throw in just for variety. He does not interpret the role as a menacing villain, but as a confident, tireless, self-satisfied trickster. The man's bulldog face, coupled with his short crew cut, gave an unusually menacing look to him. His eyes are smeared over with dark makeup, his face is pale white, with a Fu Manchu and his smile is evil and menacing. Dark, menacing and overblown to the point of daftness, it's just like the real Wuthering Heights. Yellow eyes glowing vengefully, his expression was hooded, dark and menacing. They create overly dense, complex, and detailed cartoon drawings that seem at once beautiful and menacing. The staff watched in horror from their viewport as the first wave of menacing assault wings descended on the dormant federation fleet. I much prefer it when he strides purposefully through the office with a menacing glare. I am part of that menacing statistic that essentially dooms love from the very beginning. If they're not portrayed as awkward dorks, then they're cold and menacing psychopaths. His witty sarcasm has been replaced by the still-ironic but much less amusing regime of menacing doublespeak. He drew his mouth back into a sneer, revealing his menacing canine eye teeth. He looks rather menacing with his thick, towering frame and a black downturned mustache that gives him a look of permanent annoyance. A tall, menacing African stood by the tracks and jabbed at me with his spear each time I passed. Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close. Her icy gaze and menacing snarl turn on a dime to sparkling warmth and dazzling smile. The opening track's menacing buzz may suggest some broad departure, but the warm, familiar fuzzes fasten the fate of the rest of the album as comfortably as Velcro. Every sound fits appropriately within the game's digital world, with many vocal utterances seemingly processed by filters to lend them a menacing or machine-like tone. Show More Sentences Their weapons looked menacing even holstered and their spiked helmets with the single eye-sensor oscillating back and forth made him somewhat uncomfortable. And many of my Sikh friends have shared with me a history of racial slurs and menacing stares they have endured over the years. Rigg pointed out a blockhouse on the bluff overlooking the beach, saying they could expect menacing fire from that area. But there is something unsettling about the menacing threats which have accompanied the protests, a taste of which was unveiled in the unsavoury scenes outside Parliament. A white drawing on black paper depicts from various angles a school of the menacing fairy-tale creatures, variously ornamented with stripes, scallops and spikes. They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory. As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing. You can tell that someone thought this off-putting tale of modern mob mentality and teen occult fascination would make a very menacing, demographically secure chiller. But an island any less menacing would fail to breed a villain who could hope to spar with James Bond. The track is immediately set apart by the awkward opening sounds of seagulls and a garbage truck in reverse gear, before it launches into a menacing guitar riff. He wore a bowler hat, white shirt, trousers and braces like the main character and would become aggressive and menacing when he played the film music. The fact that the leader of the free world used to be a doddering old guy completely out of touch with reality seems more cute than menacing these days. Hopefully, the fans will not behave as badly as they did four years ago when the Socceroos were spat on by a menacing crowd at the Montevideo airport. The sky is definitely looking menacing with its gray overcast. He wagged his index finger, beckoning in a vaguely menacing way. There are the menacing lorries and tipper trailers that are parked on the roads, and there is daylong hammering and tinkering and revving of engines for repairs. She has a habit of being photographed menacing her band-mate with an antique sword, for one thing, and for another, well, she makes herself up like a mime before performances. But it will take a lot more than castrating one menacing tantric to turn the tide. But his menacing character is haunted and feral, a trapped animal hemmed in by a dreary, claustrophobic life. The yellow ticking clock that punctuates every episode of 24 is simultaneously bombastic, methodical, menacing, and relentless. Show More Sentences Will the mysterious and coldly menacing Cowboy carry out his threats? In a pre-emptive strike against the menacing spectre of boredom, I had decided I would write a letter to someone conducting themselves meritoriously. I had never seen a wrasse move so fast in my life, and looked up over the camera just in time to see a torpedo-like seal glide past in menacing pursuit. If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella. Today Star Trek has updated the look so as to make Klingons more menacing. It roamed about the place in a menacing pigeon-toed way, ready to nip. By contrast, this character is a Latino version of Hawk, the darkly menacing, monosyllabic backup man he created for his Spenser detective series. A towering cloud of black smoke flanked by soaring flames was visible for miles around, providing an awesome and menacing picture of the developing inferno. Rigid with fear Alf began to jog down an alley where the trees hung over to form a canopy beneath the lights creating a shadowy, menacing passageway. Thousands of 10-foot pythons roam the Florida Everglades, menacing man and beast alike. The music is very unique too, full of off-kilter, obscure instruments, giving the album an dreamy old-fashioned vibe, which works whether the songs are gentle or menacing. Dramatic glints of light and billowing shadows set a menacing tone. The enormous crowd around the enclosure was screaming cheerily, the car engines were revving up and the propane was spitting menacing proportions of heat. Four dark shapes, menacing funnels belching spark-laced smoke thundered down the rolling plains, the ground churning to dust underneath their cruel wheels. Their eyes, all four of them, rolled and showed white as the harnesses were strapped to them, mindful of the spikes that traveled down their spines, sharp and menacing. Periodically, unpredictably, a roar makes the pavilion tremble and the menacing shadow of a low-flying plane is projected slowly across the vaulted ceiling. These include sirens, menacing sea creatures and a rather frosty roc. But the moment suggests to him that if he is awake, then his reality is truly stranger and more menacing than he ever imagined. The other, a 28-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and ID'd the suspects, who were busted that day and charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession. The loom of the lighthouse flashed across the sky. The waves moved back and forth across the jagged rocks, gradually becoming larger and more menacing. Show More Sentences I finished down an arched spine of a ridge, village in view, and sloe tree scrub and birch, menacing fly agaric funghi, and a flashing flock of goldcrests. So sayeth Mike Tyson, the menacing and troubled warrior from the mean streets of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A flash of lightning struck, answered by the rumbling of menacing thunder. It is like a concretistic representation of the fleeting, occult, uncontrollable and menacing nature of what goes on inside things. Its long, graceful, menacing head figure carved in the stern, such as the Oseburg ship, echoed the designs of its predecessors. A new and menacing enemy started to emerge directly after Alexander's success in the Persian war. Ostensibly a viceroy for Zeno, Odoacer was menacing Byzantine territory and not respecting the rights of Roman citizens in Italy. By this time, the Berbers controlled most of the north of the Iberian peninsula, except for the Ebro valley, and were menacing Toledo. We took hold of anything that might serve as a weapon to stand off the menacing group of young men. In typical British stiff upper lip fashion, the tournament organizers expected us to play into, and through, the menacing weather. Two menacing Fargo-esque figures show up to complicate things. It is difficult to imagine another proposal that would be as menacing to the iffy equilibrium of this religiously diverse nation. The dagger tattooed on his cheek conveys a menacing persona. As the Dow continues to tempt the savage bear market, investors have grown fidgety amid its menacing presence. The roads are forlorn, the landscape barren, the forests menacing. As Blade, Snipes only has to look menacing, make some martial-arts moves and gorily and bloodily rid the world of bad vamps. Knowing, menacing and hypnotically compelling, this is an excellent mind-bending plunge into the shallows of American life. The Thatcherite assumption, in other words, was that government failure is far more menacing to prosperity than market failure. The split second break in that menacing circle saved my life. Layering menacing sprechstimme over skeletal electro tracks is her hallmark, but there are more live elements in the mix this time. Show More Sentences The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore. Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. Sky Sports even filmed vignettes where a kilt wearing Jamie had his face painted blue and ran through woods throwing his darts whilst looking menacing. This record is catchier and more danceable but still menacing and cool. Under a microscope we would be revulsed by the sight of many squirming, evil-looking microbes, waving their flagella in a menacing manner and exuding deathly disease. The standoff figured prominently at the Mercosur bloc's meeting in Caracas on Tuesday, with heads of state castigating the holdouts as speculators menacing the entire region. If for some reason the heart is not feather-light, it is Anubis' grim task to toss it like a Scooby snack to the menacing, ever-hungry she-monster, Ammit. These ships were likely skeids that differed only in the carvings of menacing beasts, such as dragons and snakes, carried on the prow of the ship. Narrated exquisitely by the devilish Equivocator who lives up to his namesake with a performance both comic and menacing, Magpies is a fast-paced and never predictable drama. In 1802, the menacing Zheng Yi inherited the fleet of his cousin, captain Zheng Qi, whose death provided Zheng Yi with considerably more influence in the world of piracy. Fortunately the menacing molusc did not like the seedlings of some of the desirable wildflowers such as wood cranesbill, rough hawkbit and greater burnet. Favoured by Hollywood celebrities and footballers' wives, the Hummer may look menacing, but actually features more creature comforts than the plushiest hotel. Examples from Classical Literature Watch the scuba diver hand feed giant turtles, sting rays and even the menacing moray eels in the Hawaiian Reef Tank. Dr. Pusey receives a menacing intimation of what his Commentary must not be. In puce velvet, a great trumpet-mouthed gun in his hands, he stood beefy and menacing before them. And the thunder of galloping hoofs was more menacing than that of the cannon. For that sort of inertia in woman is always enigmatic and therefore menacing. They were things of beauty, but it was a beauty strange, menacing, subhuman. The golden statue veered in the changing breeze, menacing many points on the horizon with its aureate arrow. The movement with the bow might have been menacing, but Bolden ignored that gesture. The menacing shadow of the finger of scorn pointing at her from every airt of heaven had disappeared. Males approached each other with menacing demeanor, with heads turned, snouts depressed, and forequarters standing high. He paused for an instant, then spoke in a voice that was brutally menacing. He is safe from me, yet if last night I had struck home, I should have ridded your country of a great and menacing danger. Milady had listened to all this menacing tirade with a smile of disdain on her lips, but rage in her heart. He identified them circumspectly, going suddenly stiff-legged as Lerumie made a low, hissing, menacing noise. Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild, and menacing. In the midst arose the huge mound of the teocalli, menacing, formidable. Marriage, that had been but a vision then, loomed large, almost menacing. Then a tiff ensues, but it is mostly made up of menacing screeches. My polite insistence must have had something menacing in it, because he gave in suddenly. There they are shadowed by the ghostly forms of menacing, bodiless shapes! Show More Sentences Clouds, heavy and menacing, already shrouded the whole west. In spite of the menacing hand, the voice inspired confidence. The relentless, menacing tone chilled him and sapped his self-control. At first, his father's menacing words lay by in some safe drawer of memory, biding their hour. Actor Simon Pegg was a scary red devil and Sherlock star Martin Freeman nailed the menacing Clockwork Orange look. Edmond then cast his eyes scrutinizingly at the agitated and embarrassed Mercedes, and then again on the gloomy and menacing Fernand. In the meanwhile Red-Eye continued to bombard us, the rock fragments falling about us, splashing water on us, and menacing our lives. When the baby was about three months old, Desiree awoke one day to the conviction that there was something in the air menacing her peace. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. A day or two afterwards a coach containing the company was really crawling and staggering up the spurs of the menacing mountain range. There was a little pause, and the father stood rigid, menacing. To the north lies Thunder Mountain, wall-sided and menacing. On the left side of the horse, away from the menacing pike, Moe reared. As soon as I saw his empurpled face and his menacing walk, it told me instantly that it wasn't to congratulate me on my journalistic prowess. Fiennes glowers with menacing intent behind his flawless make-up and Yates seamlessly melds visual effects and live action, not least with the re-introduction of Dobby. Werewolf Fenir Grayback, a new villain, is also seen menacing our heroes. Natty stood all this time in a menacing attitude, with his rifle pointed over the breastwork, watching with a quick and cautions eye the least movement of the assail ants. In silence, which was broken now only by a low and ominous rumble, more menacing than had been the awful fury of the elements, the travelers looked. His unimposing physique implies the role of underdog, so he comically represents himself as menacing by ripping off his shirt, a la Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestler. Shrewsbury recalled for the September 30 Salisbury Post that he turned around and saw the man coining at him while holding the stick in a menacing manner. Show More Sentences The winter was coming on again, more menacing and cruel than ever. About eleven o'clock they were passing over the basin of Imenge, and the tribes scattered over the adjacent hills were impotently menacing the Victoria with their weapons. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of menacing? Words that rhyme with menacing What is the plural of menacing? What is the adverb for menacing? What is the adjective for menacing? What is the noun for menacing? Translations for menacing Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words menaces menaced menace MENA Mena MEN menacingly menadione menage menagerie menageries men and women 8-letter Words Starting With m me men mena menac menaci menacin