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• Instead, it was treated as a menace to public health and the economy.2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian. From the entry public health
• Night time is best and big baits are needed to combat lice and other menaces like crabs.2008, Rex Hunt, Fishing Guide to Melbourne and Surrounds, page 77. From the entry gummy shark
• So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats.2007, Kathryn Soper, Cat Wrangling Made Easy. From the entry clowder
• Some politicians tried to encourage this replacement of the red with a green menace.2006, Benjamin Soares, Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa, page 11. From the entry green
• But then, on the horizon, loomed a new menace: the Red Chinese.1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176. From the entry Red Chinese
• Predictional astrology is, to my personal point of view, both a menace and a handicap.1951, Alice A. Bailey, The Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey, page 231. From the entry predictional
• They are a menace to other persons as well as to themselves.1934, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “To the West Riding”, in English Journey […], London: William Heinemann in association with Victor…. From the entry downright
• Corporeally, he stood between Robert and Millie, a parent of dark menace.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 128. From the entry spiritually
• I gave the command full speed ahead and went charging toward the menace.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry full speed ahead
• That is the danger that always menaces people when they get over into their Promised Land.1912, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 8, in Mary Ware's Promised Land. From the entry promised land
• On the other hand an unprofessional commercialist is a menace and a disgrace.1912 December, Wilhelm Bodemann, “Applied Cooperation”, in The Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, volume I, number 12…. From the entry propagandum
• And far be it from me to deny that socialism is a menace.1905 April, Jack London, “(please specify the page)”, in War of the Classes, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &…. From the entry root and branch
• It is at this point that the real menace of unskill becomes clear.1901, Popular Science. From the entry unskill
• With the term "idolatry," the "aniconists" refer to the "iconists" as the group where the strongest menace resides.2009, Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry aniconist
• Americans are having another Sputnik moment: one of those periodic alarms about some foreign technological and economic menace.2005 May 25, Robert J. Samuelson, “Sputnik Scare, Updated”, in Washington Post. From the entry Sputnik moment
• What matters is if it qualifys as menace or harass.2002 December 3, Rod Speed, “Defamation law and hyperlinks?”, in aus.legal (Usenet), retrieved 26 May 2022. From the entry qualifys
• They constitute therefore a permanent menace to their neighbors.1948 summer, Franz Alexander, “The Price of Peace”, in Child Study: A Quarterly Journal of Parent Education, New York, N.Y.: Child Study…. From the entry draconically
• The wild beast ultimately menaces Bart in his schoolroom before Groundskeeper Willie strips down and saves the day by defeating the wolf in combat.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in…. From the entry B-story
• Scotland, so disappointing in defeat to Argentina a week ago, tryless against the comparative minnows of Georgia, carried all the menace and mobility.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport. From the entry tryless
• On "Promiscuous" and "Maneater," Furtado shades her hollaback sass with erotic menace, and on "Glow" she marries new wave and hip-hop like Debbie Harry redux.2006 June, “Funky Mother”, in SPIN, volume 22, number 6, page 84. From the entry hollaback
• In their eyes, as in those of most people, the chubby chaser is a menace, not a mensch: a real man doesn't love fat.1996, Richard Klein, Eat Fat, Pantheon Books, →ISBN. From the entry chubby chaser
• The devilfish felt the menace of his attitude, and his two longest tentacles began to writhe in the air, as he measured our distance.1922, Frederick O'Brien, Atolls of the Sun, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, pages 164–165. From the entry devilfish
• The memory of this moment is in fact a menace to institutional order because it suggests its fragility and reminds Hogwartians of the ever-present possibility of transgression.2018, Isabel Capeloa Gil, “Lex Fugit: On Acts of Legibility”, in Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (Thamyris/Intersecting…. From the entry Hogwartian
• The carny snapped around—snap!—and gave the goat roper a stare so electric with menace that Genevieve expected the colored lightbulbs that trimmed the booth to buzz and dim.2015, Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel. From the entry goat roper
• For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport. From the entry parity
• Mario Gotze was inventive, Lewandowski a menace, and Shinji Kagawa a constant source of energy as, time and again, the hosts played through a porous Arsenal midfield.2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC. From the entry time and again
• Traditionally feared as a parasite on literature, a bibliophagous menace to the authority of the book, the rat represents the forces of decomposition endemic to the work of composition.2010, Maud Ellmann, “Chapter 2. The modernist rat”, in The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud…. From the entry bibliophagous
• All the papers came as usual, in their long, arhythmical collapse onto the doormat, where they lay like a menace and were approached at last with long-armed reluctance.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry arhythmical
• "Multiculturalism," as the new menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism – take your choice.1991 April 8, Barbara Ehrenreich, “Essay: Teach Diversity – with a Smile”, in Time. From the entry multiculturalism
• In the tenth century there is evidence that the government was taking action against kin, its chosen instrument, where its overpowerfulness made it a menace to the state.1972, Helen M. Jewell, “Police Functions”, in English Local Administration in the Middle Ages, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles; New…. From the entry overpowerfulness
• Now that the Japanese menace has been removed, at least temporarily, refugee farmers and artisans are drifting back to their homes in Hunan, south of the Yuan River.1944 January 3 [1943 December 29], Brooks Atkinson, “MANY ATROCITIES LISTED BY CHINESE; Barbarity of Japanese Held to Be Psychopathic…. From the entry Yuan River
• "If your competitor regards you as a menace to his pocketbook, he can give you a nice little run for your money and delay you indefinitely."1918, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 24, in The Valley of the Giants. From the entry run for one's money
• With Sam the only menace, I had been prepared to play a purely waiting game, watching proceedings from afar, ready to give my help if necessary.1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in The Little Nugget. From the entry waiting game
• Two days later the National government which Chiang Kai-shek had established five years before at Nanking was moved to Loyang, far from the menace of Japanese men-of-war on the Yangtse.1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 146. From the entry Yangtse
• We speak carefully and thoughtfully when we say that we honestly believe that the homoganized is more of a menace to the Oregon dairyman than the miswrapping of tub butter.1908, Oregon. Dairy and Food Commissioner, Biennial Report, page 22. From the entry miswrap

Meaning of menace

1. noun A perceived threat or danger.
2. noun The act of threatening.
3. noun An annoying and bothersome person or thing.

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Questions about menace in a sentence

How do you use menace in a sentence?

Menace is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Bradley Barcola, on for Kvaratskhelia, menaced with his jet-heeled pace on the counter.”

What is a short sentence with menace?

“to menace a country with war”

What does menace mean?

Menace means a perceived threat or danger.