Sentence examples for began menacing from inspiring English sources

The object he was trying to hide was a kitchen knife or steak knife, Mr. Browne said, and he began "menacing" the officer with it.

In December, 2007 and January, 2008, a game of "chicken" between the 5th Fleet and Iranian naval speedboats broke out when Tehran began menacing U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf, although there were no hostilities as a result.

A new villainess calling herself the White Canary begins menacing the Birds, and publicly reveals Black Canary's civilian identity and frames her for a murder.

The denialism ended this summer, as the financial bushfire moved to Italy and even began to menace Belgium and France.

We did not stay long at the burned out police station before Maythem decided that groups of young men with guns standing around it were beginning to look menacing.

The beachgoers begin to seem menacing.

But then the ship tanks cracked and 180,000 gallons of diesel and 80 gallons of bunker fuel began to leak out, menacing the complex ecosystem supporting the species that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Teller saw in the hydrogen bomb the one hope for survival and his warnings of a Soviet menace began to reach receptive ears.

Dr. Teller saw in the hydrogen bomb hope for survival, and his warnings of a Soviet menace began to reach receptive ears.

But Shakur never got the chance to wield a lightsaber: the filming of Episode I - The Phantom Menace began only in June 1997, nine months after the MC was died in Las Vegas.

What sparked this precise story was: A couple years ago I got to thinking that our world has so many blind spots, so many places and people it intentionally doesn't want to see — if some menace began to coalesce in these spaces, our own unseeing would, in fact, blind us to the danger.