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  • The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade.
  • Fang demonstrated a little more gumption only once, when Lucius Malfoy visited Hagrid's cabin. Then menacingly.
  • Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
  • In the inset picture he is menacingly pointing it towards the camera and staring down both barrels. The Sun
  • He increasingly has a menacingly frowing steep mountain to climb. Obama resigns from controversial church
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  • As it hovered menacingly, it spoke the now familiar words in its screeching voice.
  • Malevolent in appearance as it hovers menacingly in the spring skies, the Apache attack helicopter will soon be a familiar sight over Yorkshire.
  • To wave or flourish ( a weapon, for example ) menacingly.
  • The child's puppet dolls are miniatures of herself and Miss Jessel, dangled menacingly over the canopy of the big four-poster bed where the virginal new governess endures her fevered nightmares. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
  • Suddenly, a tall and stately golden figure saw us and brandished his weapon menacingly.
  • The threat remains, more menacingly than ever by "forc (ing) foreign central banks to bear the costs of America's expanding military empire" through recycling their dollars into US Treasuries - something the mass media call "showing their faith in US economic strength. Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism:" The Economic Strategy of Imperial America
  • He and Thomas were slowly advancing toward me, smiling, their eyes glinting menacingly.
  • There's even a scene where a giant watermelon is menacingly thrust at an innocent bystander.
  • The monster's half mammalian, half reptilian face glared menacingly at him with cold, merciless yellow eyes.
  • They stare back defiantly at the crowds, menacingly baring their teeth, and grabbing candy trays with nimble speed.
  • Nature is menacingly intruding on civilisation.
  • Rather quickly though, the desperate looking teen recovers and then decides to glare menacingly at me as if registering my presence in the room at last.
  • We were lucky enough to see a cheetah striding menacingly towards its lunch in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Large searchlights that had festooned the foremast lay collapsed beneath it on the seabed and her main fore guns were still trained menacingly to port.
  • Barnes slaps his meaty hand over the mouth of a soldier screaming from the searing pain of shrapnel and menacingly commands ‘Take the pain!’
  • He suddenly leant threateningly over the child, eyebrows furrowed, eyes glittering menacingly.
  • It had not changed as we progressed: ocean, sand, low dunes crowned with impenetrable tangles of wild bay, sparkleberry, and live-oak, with here and there a weather-twisted palmetto sprawling, and here and there the battered blades of cactus and Spanish-bayonet thrust menacingly forward; and over all the vultures, sailing, sailing -- some mere circling motes lost in the blue above, some sheering the earth so close that their swiftly sweeping shadows slanted continually across our road. In Search of the Unknown
  • We were lucky enough to see a cheetah striding menacingly towards its lunch in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here in a capsule is the dilemma that confronts all Canadian universities, but that looms up most insistently, I almost said, most menacingly, at the University of Toronto: how do we preserve the University as a place of learning, scholarship, and research when it must adapt itself, during the course of the next few years, to doubled enrolment. The University and the City
  • The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly
  • I frowned, glancing from his face to the sawed-off shotgun gleaming menacingly in his hands.
  • The statewide manager stalked through the aisles menacingly, not speaking a word to Ed and Tony.
  • He is kicking around somewhere, menacingly sawing wood with what sounds like a chainsaw. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just eyeball some of those burly boys who stand menacingly in the doorways and you'll get my drift.
  • A group of men suddenly emerged from a doorway and moved menacingly forward to block her way.
  • Lee makes her way over to Carl still prone on the dusty floor, grins at him and offers her hand while Xanne plants herself firmly near his face, arms akimbo, and glares menacingly down at him.
  • They stare back defiantly at the crowds, menacingly baring their teeth, and grabbing candy trays with nimble speed.
  • Jason followed and eventually cornered me into a tree by the garbage bins behind the gardening shed, and came towards me menacingly.
  • The bear growled menacingly and took a couple steps toward them.
  • We saw monkeys swinging through the tree-tops and a long black serpent snaking menacingly over branches.
  • He continued to allow his gaze to rove over the gleaming blade, menacingly sharp, as well as its well-decorated hilt.
  • He is kicking around somewhere, menacingly sawing wood with what sounds like a chainsaw. Times, Sunday Times
  • One afternoon I was sorting out the petty cash when I heard the unmistakeable sound of her intimidating gait as she walked menacingly towards my desk.
  • the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly
  • "It is time to end this charade, " she said menacingly.
  • A menacingly black sky loomed upon the horizon - the weatherman had forecast a storm.
  • The security guards stared at that crazy fan menacingly.
  • Today the city is illuminated softly from behind grey clouds wafted inland from the Irish Sea and massing menacingly to the north.
  • They were both wielding large, curved scimitars; they swung them about menacingly, circling them.
  • All three dogs growled menacingly at the figure.
  • I had hoped to see plenty of pelagics here and sure enough, below us and at the periphery of our vision, a small school of jacks was being circled menacingly by several grey reef sharks.
  • Some of them avoided republican activism like the plague when there was a risk to personal safety or freedom, but with the Good Friday Agreement found it easy to puff the chest out and ask menacingly ‘do you know who I am?’
  • A lean man, smartly dressed, wearing shades, hovers menacingly.
  • I peer over one shoulder to see a bank of dark cloud menacingly close, and I can feel the temperature beginning to drop.
  • 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. CHAPTER XXVII
  • An elderly man ran at him with a cry of fury and a large earthen pot raised over his head menacingly.
  • In the inset picture he is menacingly pointing it towards the camera and staring down both barrels. The Sun
  • So Mandy and Carole are the last Prætorian guards defending Number 10 against Gordon's advancing legions and the Children of the Night, ululating menacingly at the heels of Howard Dracul.
  • Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
  • While he's speaking, an RCMP officer in a black suit checks my press credentials menacingly.
  • Alex reached in and extracted what looked like a crocodile head that was gnashing its teeth together menacingly.
  • I frowned, glancing from his face to the sawed-off shotgun gleaming menacingly in his hands.
  • A big cat leaps through a flaming hoop, but not without snarling menacingly.
  • A group of men suddenly emerged from a doorway and moved menacingly forward to block her way.
  • There's no loony-haired maniac gurning in a murky tunnel this time around; no prowling cat's eyed gargantuan ripping out raps menacingly.
  • His entire body swivels around and he advances menacingly like a stray dog snarling over a piece of meat.
  • He had his sword in his hand, though he was unsure why until a hooded figure stepped out of the shadows and laughed menacingly at him.
  • I smiled menacingly and she quickly averted her terror-stricken gaze.
  • It was surreal and very funny - all I needed was a white cat to stroke menacingly and I was set.
  • I stood on the front porch watching horizontal sheets of rain sweep up the driveway as the clouds boiled menacingly overhead.
  • ‘There is an expectation that somebody, somewhere has got some dirt on him,’ said one senior MP menacingly.
  • The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade.
  • A comparable effect can be found in the Brothers Quay's latest, In Absentia, where light plays menacingly over a doll-house-size madhouse.
  • Some saw the irrational spectre of money illusion lurking menacingly in the wings.
  • In apparent compensation, De la Cruz in particular was determined to shoot on sight, one 25-metre missile bobbling menacingly in front of the home goal before dropping just wide.
  • He is kicking around somewhere, menacingly sawing wood with what sounds like a chainsaw. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the claim that “the security of the American people is inextricably linked to the security of all people,” they hear echoes of the universalist logic that led to the disaster in Vietnam and see a sweeping foreign policy that the rest of the world finds at best meddlesome and at worst menacingly imperialist. Globaloney

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