Sentence examples for becomes menacing from inspiring English sources

The landscape becomes menacing.

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.

Like in Oates' own work, even the mundane becomes menacing.

These effects have an increasingly negative development as the wood dimension decreases, and therefore this situation becomes menacing for the efficiency and the utilization potential of small-sized wood.

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.

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

Throughout the stories, calm becomes menace and no one seems to understand the depths to which these girls have been devastated.

Darkness became menacing, a thing to be feared.

At the front edge of that apparently comfortable (and now obviously complacent) moment, the atomic promise became menace again in Japan.