MENACE in a Sentence

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109 example sentences for MENACE, such as:

1. His voice was quiet and almost menacing.
2. United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
3. A man who drives fast is a menace to other people.
4. The other winced as he read the menace in his eyes.
5. Throughout the book there is a pervading sense of menace.

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 Meanings and Examples of MENACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
menace
 n.  danger; a threat or the act of threatening; something that is a source of danger; threaten; intimidate
Classic Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
1  They were looking on the state they loved, seeing it trampled by the enemy, rascals making a mock of the law, their former slaves a menace, their men disfranchised, their women insulted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  She was thinking gratefully that Jonas Wilkerson would never again be a menace of Tara and she was thinking about Tony.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  The ever-present menace of lawless negroes and Yankee soldiers preyed on her mind, the danger of confiscation was constantly with her, even in her dreams, and she dreaded worse terrors to come.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Pitty's hand trembled so that the lamp was a menace to the safety of the house but she held it and trotted ahead toward the dark bedroom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  The country girls were considered a menace to the social order.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
6  A form stood at the brow of the mountain, on the very edge of the giddy height, with uplifted arms, in an awful attitude of menace.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
7  "Now, don't bother me," he repeated with desperate menace.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  There had been no order given; the men, upon recognizing the menace, had immediately let drive their flock of bullets without waiting for word of command.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
9  It was only the new game-keeper, but he had frightened Connie, he seemed to emerge with such a swift menace.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  The great, rambling mass of a place seemed evil to her, just a menace over her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  A new and most unpleasant system of menace had begun, and the intent appeared to be to do him grievous bodily harm.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
13  The other winced as he read the menace in his eyes.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
14  The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this powerless and dejected character.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
15  Yes; but that menace terrifies me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
Example Sentence:
1  United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
2  It's the only way to deal with the menace of drug dealing.
3  A man who drives fast is a menace to other people.
4  Throughout the book there is a pervading sense of menace.
5  Whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion.
6  Kerry didn't elaborate, perhaps because the US and Nigeria do not agree on the nature of the menace let alone how to counter it.
7  His voice was quiet and almost menacing.