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Example sentences for "menacingly"

Lexicographically close words:
mena; menace; menaced; menaces; menacing; menage; menagerie; menageries; mence; mencion
  1. Then the captain broke into a fierce tirade as he shook his hand menacingly at the prisoner.

  2. That you will soon find out," menacingly said McNerney.

  3. Its coarse savage growl sawed the air as it moved menacingly forward.

  4. She would not allow Curly to speak, and whenever he made the attempt she sternly checked him and menacingly raised her weapon of authority.

  5. The citadel rises high above the buildings of the town, and frowns menacingly on its assailants.

  6. And thus the very measures by which Macnaghten sought to extricate himself from his difficulties, only made them gather more menacingly around him.

  7. Then she turned and advanced menacingly on Winston.

  8. Though the waves outside slammed ever more menacingly against the quartergallery, as the storm was worsening noticeably, she still longed for the wind in her face.

  9. As the nobleman menacingly moved toward him.

  10. A moment they stood thus, the fool with his hand menacingly upon the hilt; the scamp-scholar continuing to confront him with undiminished volubility.

  11. That's my business," said Kouka, advancing menacingly toward Koerner.

  12. The whole room was somber and gloomy, suggesting the power of a mighty government poised menacingly above its people; there were hints of authority and old precedents in that atmosphere.

  13. He said nothing for a moment, but fixed his black flaming eyes menacingly on the queen.

  14. But Mr. St. Clair was wholly intent upon the music and only shook his finger menacingly at Mrs. Belmont for interrupting it.

  15. When the crowd overwhelm the place entirely, the officials clear them out by angry gesticulations and moral suasion, sometimes menacingly shaking the end of their own queues at them as though they were wielding black-snake whips.

  16. The chief himself, though ostensibly accepting my statement, has his own suspicions to the same purpose, and before dismissing them he shakes his finger menacingly at the sowars and significantly touches the hilt of his sword.

  17. Typhon slept--coiled about the feet of his granite prisoner, whose bulk loomed menacingly against the wheeling galaxies.

  18. An obstinate expression hardened Sayre's face; the breeze stirred a lock on his handsome but prematurely bald forehead; he gazed menacingly at his companion through his gold pince-nez.

  19. With Gohier he tried argument; to Moulins he menacingly remarked that if Santerre, the notorious demagogue and his relative, should this time make a move to raise the populace, his fate would be death.

  20. Napoleon's career was one long, thick shadow which hung menacingly over English life.

  21. As we drew close to the Greek he began to scream menacingly at us and to brandish a sheath-knife.

  22. Then the little beggar, electric with fear to every hair tip, crouches and snarls menacingly and almost at the same time whimpers appeasingly at the storm-monster outside.

  23. On his comely head he set his helmet, well-wrought, with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it, and he grasped a redoubtable spear that suited his hands.

  24. On his comely head he set his helmet, well wrought, with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it.

  25. He turned menacingly toward Moritz, who saw it not.

  26. A glistening white arm is raised menacingly toward the bridge.

  27. The dog's eyes and teeth gleamed menacingly in the moonlight, and she knew that the slightest move would precipitate an attack upon her.

  28. A moment ago his face had been distorted from horror; now a look of rage glittered menacingly in his eyes.

  29. With these words he raised his staff menacingly over the young Italian.

  30. I heard a pistol-shot some time back," he continued, looking menacingly at Espérance.

  31. Napoleon, and, advancing a step toward the admiral, he menacingly raised the hand in which he still held his riding-whip.

  32. He muttered yet menacingly to himself, then his head fell on his breast, his eyes closed, and with a deep sigh he fell asleep.

  33. He swung his staff menacingly towards the crowd, which fell back a little.

  34. He made a lunge for it and seizing it in his mouth growled so menacingly while his claws dug deeply in Myla's side that she hastened to put him down on the branch while she withdrew a short distance to watch the proceedings.

  35. Blake scowled and stared menacingly toward a snow-embanked, snow- covered building, the verandahs of which distinguished it as the office and quarters of the Resident Engineer.

  36. Seized with desperate fear of the big form that leaned menacingly toward him over the desk, Ashton snatched an automatic pistol from the top drawer, and thrust it out toward Blake.

  37. With it came a huge wave that curved its crest menacingly above the tiny sloop.

  38. At this sign of recovery, one of the other ants advanced menacingly as if to bite me again.

  39. But as I sought to follow her, the sentinel stepped before me and drew a short broadsword, which he held menacingly in his hand.

  40. The other ant-man occasionally would advance menacingly toward me with his head lowered, but each time Doggo would step between us, and lower his own head and agitate his antennae, at which the other would desist.

  41. In the gray four o'clock light it seemed like an enormous cow that rolled menacingly forward; not as a cow walks, however, but with a swaying, heaving motion like nothing commonly seen on a Maine highway.

  42. One look at the terrible white thing which loomed menacingly above him was enough.

  43. As he raised his head he saw standing poised above him on the opposite bank, with ears laid menacingly flat and nostrils aquiver in nervous palpitation, a buckskin-colored stallion.


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