Sentence examples for become menacing from inspiring English sources

You don't deal with these people on a daily basis, and they can become menacing reminders of the way you were.

The landscape becomes menacing.

Then they became menacing.

He developed a reputation as the kind of boss who seemed friendly at first, a man "who'd give you your first meal free," a former employee recalled, but who became menacing if angered.

Wade's task was to create a tribe with their own codes, their own slang – the constant use of the word "mate", for example, which starts out merely grating, but quickly becomes menacing.

In a new book ("One Man's View of the World"), Mr Lee notes: "The Chinese know that they are the biggest boy in the neighbourhood and that, as they grow in power, they can expect more respect for their rights from their neighbours".If the respect is lacking, China becomes menacing.

The backline continues to impress as it tidied most of Brugge's attacking threat before it ever became menacing.

Darkness became menacing, a thing to be feared.

Idle comments become vaguely menacing threats.

When one's heros are reexamined and understood to suffer from weakness and even inhumanity, one's adversaries become less menacing.

Without civil-rights legislation and the concomitant changes in America's social views on race relations, the challenge that those organizations posed might have lasted much longer and become more menacing.