Sentence examples for was menace from inspiring English sources
verb
To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
- To menace a country with war
There was menace in the words, a hint of disdain in his voice.
But there was menace too, amid the mutters that the Irish government ran a poor campaign.Mr Cowen pleaded for time to ponder what had gone wrong, and was granted it for now.
Hal Levison, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute, in Boulder, Colo., who studies the evolution of the solar system, said that whether Jupiter was menace or protector depended on where the comets came from.
The lead story for the first issue was "Menace of the Metal Men", by A. Prestigiacomo; this was a 1933 reprint from the British edition of Argosy, but the other stories in the issue were all new.
The national economy was menaced by it.
For the more traditional media industry, the moment was menacing.
He was menaced by the prospect of someone drowning.
But the new "Trouble" was menacing from start to finish.
The judge said, however, that the message was "menacing in its content and obviously so.
Business was menaced by an overvalued D-mark, nimble Asian competitors and unification's huge costs.
He was menacing... threatening.
