intimidating

How To Use intimidating In A Sentence

• Considering his height, then the steely look and his rough voice, both of which reminded me a lot of Carey, he was a rather intimidating person, even to me.
• They have been miniaturized so as to make them less threatening or intimidating to their small owners.
• For Reeves, a Bowl concert can be intimidating, but the difficulties it presents also inspire her as a singer.
• Throughout his 13-year career, Taylor was a marauding, intimidating presence who helped transform the Giants from also-rans into champions.
• But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
• The cure for the shaking floor is to rebuild the floor, an intimidating task at best.
• He had developed a fearsome reputation for intimidating people.
• Wow...a one-off “intimidating” isn’t that a term rife with interpretations... comment and one is a felon? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Cyberspace and the Law: Privacy, Property, and Crime in the Virtual Frontier”
• Surely, they were capable of enacting toward women, and toward one another, the terms of Martin Buber's I-It relation — Stevenson's "tripper" and the intimidating husbands offer the most intense expressions of that capacity, and no doubt, there were many subtle expressions of it at The Farm as well. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83
• He won as much by intimidating the enemy as by outfighting them. Advance and Retreat