| In the first movement, the Lambeg drums are male, minatory, and hostile, in conflict with the main orchestra. |
| Exploitations of various kinds, in several directions, are recounted in a tone both minatory and droll. |
| These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness. |
| One of the last bestselling American diet books to adopt a minatory tone towards self-control was Dr Irwin Stillman's 1967 Quick Weight Loss Diet. |
| The leaders of the fuel protest in 2000 have been making minatory noises. |
| He could be both hortatory and minatory in his public utterances and yet retreat to a small, still voice in the solitude of his study. |
