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Example sentences for "minatory"

Lexicographically close words:
mina; minae; minaire; minaret; minarets; mince; minced; mincemeat; minces; mincing
  1. But was it in virtue of his seeing armed Phantasms of St. Edmund 'on the rim of the horizon,' looking minatory on him?

  2. Pass by with minatory eagle-glance, with calm-sniffing mockery, or even without any mockery or sniff, when these present themselves?

  3. Monseigneur with an air of minatory surprise.

  4. The harsh, minatory note of that voice sufficiently expressed the fact.

  5. With a minatory forefinger he beat the time of his words.

  6. There are stern and minatory cries, and men who run.

  7. When he did come into it, his was the only voice which ever spoke there above a whisper; a sharp, startling, and minatory voice.

  8. She actually defied him, though she was quite helpless, with some minatory sounds.

  9. It has come to the duke's knowledge," continued that same nobleman, raising his tone to a slightly minatory pitch.

  10. The question, accompanied as it was, by a sweeping and minatory glance, had the immediate effect of making two Englishmen in the room try to look severely recusant and anti-matrimonial.

  11. Piece by piece she picked it up and buckled it on him, Carnaby during the somewhat irksome operation relieving his feelings by addressing various minatory remarks to the now discomfited Peckover.

  12. One spear flung at us, or one shot fired into this minatory mob of savages, and the opposing' bands had been plunged into a fatal conflict!

  13. If a sentence could not be had, Ortiz insisted on the issue of another minatory brief.

  14. She had requested the Pope to issue a minatory brief forbidding Parliament to meddle with her.

  15. Here, sure enough, are sad new intricacies in the Diplomatic, hypothetic sphere of things; and clouds piling themselves ahead, in a very minatory manner to King Friedrich.

  16. In the English provinces great play was made with Father Lacombe's minatory letter to Laurier, sent while the issue was trembling in the balance in parliament: "If the government .

  17. He boldly joined L'Institut Canadien, though it lay under the shadow of Bishop Bourget's minatory pastoral; and became an active member and officer.

  18. The sansculottes half rose from their benches, shaking minatory fists, yelling, gesticulating.

  19. Before the Grand Seigneur's cronies thought to avenge their master, they had passed the astonished servants, passed the minatory beggars at the gates, and hailing a fiacre were on their way to Paris.

  20. Blank spaces a shade darker than the grimacing, minatory rocks fell away; these I supposed to be cavernous reaches out of the passage, for from them came echoed multiples of the pole-sounds.

  21. None can say how much his unearthly pale eyes, minatory expression, and extraordinary figure had to do with what followed.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abusive; blustering; foreboding; imminent; intimidating; lowering; menacing; minatory; ominous; sinister; terroristic; terrorizing; threatening