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Example sentences for "menaces"

Lexicographically close words:
memsahib; men; mena; menace; menaced; menacing; menacingly; menage; menagerie; menageries
  1. To him and to the left flanking corps of Evert, must be accorded the credit of saving this sector with all its menaces to the future of the campaign and perhaps the whole European situation.

  2. The only danger that seriously and immediately menaces the Russians is rapidly passing away.

  3. These men, in conducting the business of the assignment, have acted in opposition to the designs of the Nabob, in despite of the menaces denounced against all who should dare to oppose the mandates of the Durbar justice.

  4. The recommendation, under menaces of such behavior, and under such circumstances, conveys a lesson the tendency of which cannot be misunderstood.

  5. Notwithstanding all the violent acts and declarations of Lord Macartney, yet a consciousness of his own misconduct was the sole incentive to the menaces and overtures he has held out in various shapes.

  6. Brief intervals and lulls of tempest came; But images of distant danger then Mixed with the imminent menaces of the night.

  7. The Spanish Cabinet had rendered itself responsible for his opposition, and he defied the menaces of France, a circumstance which decided Henry upon immediate war.

  8. Contrast with these great services the menaces and the tendencies of the Non-Intrusionists, on the assumption that they had kept their footing in the church.

  9. That is the danger which menaces from the phenomenon I have examined in this chapter.

  10. It is now so strong in numbers, intensity of conviction, and passion that it menaces their whole immediate future in our civilization.

  11. In general evil spirits are forms of contempt of others and of menaces against those who do not pay them respect; they are forms of hatreds of various kinds, also of various kinds of revenge.

  12. The sea threatens an untimely death; the shore menaces calamities from which death is a refuge.

  13. We find them protesting both with menaces and oaths against any usurpation of the clergy, "In the names of Christ, the Virgin, S.

  14. But Arthur stopped his progress by levelling his musket at him; and by his menaces made him understand, that if he did not remain where he was, he would receive the whole contents in his body.

  15. He scouted as utterly chimerical, the idea that war would necessarily follow such postponement, or even a positive rejection; and he treated the menaces of the dissolution of the Union with scorn.

  16. This devastating plague has at last attacked our allies the empire of Austria and the kingdom of Prussia, and to-day in its blind fury menaces even our Russia--that Russia which God has confided to our care.

  17. A board of general officers was appointed to inquire into his case, and notwithstanding the solicitations and menaces of Sir Henry Clinton, who anxiously sought to save him, he was condemned to die an ignominious death.

  18. As a natural consequence of these menaces and demands, disturbances took place throughout the country.

  19. Here was no allegation that menaces had been employed; there was only the fact that seven tenants had been dispossessed.

  20. Their yells and menaces continued, but undeterred by them the house adopted the amendment, six members only voting with Lord George.

  21. The menaces of the reformers were even accompanied with a display of the means of executing them.

  22. As for himself, he declared, that he would not be deterred by menaces of impeachment from striving to preserve the rights and legislative authority of parliament.

  23. Laurenceot "Notwithstanding the menaces which have been "thrown out, I vote for detention.

  24. Notes, documents, letters full of menaces showered down upon his house.

  25. Cries and menaces fell upon him like hail.

  26. Princes who were ill-affected towards him, he kept in subjection, more by menaces and remonstrances, than by force of arms.

  27. But being terrified with her menaces and violent spirit, he resolved upon her destruction, and thrice attempted it by poison.

  28. The competition of the manufactured products of Europe now menaces the domestic weaving of the Puna, just as the competition of the flour of the Pampa menaces the cultivation of cereals in the valles.

  29. During all these years, Napoleon harassed England with menaces of invasion, and excited Ireland with corresponding hopes of intervention.

  30. Rarely has battle been forced upon an army after a greater number of fruitless attempts to avoid it than those made by the French ecclesiastics, backed by the alternate solicitations and menaces of Pius the Fourth, and Philip of Spain.

  31. And Philip intended to carry his menaces into effect.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "menaces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.