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Example sentences for "menaced"

Lexicographically close words:
memos; memsahib; men; mena; menace; menaces; menacing; menacingly; menage; menagerie
  1. Ralph would be sure to counsel, and to put in practice, might only include him in the life-long persecution which menaced me.

  2. I knew as little how to meet Mr. Sherwin's last threat of forcing me to acknowledge his guilty daughter, as how to defend myself against the life-long hostility with which I was menaced by Mannion.

  3. The whole fabric of false prosperity which he had been building up to make the world respect him, was menaced with instant and shameful overthrow.

  4. Whilst the senators menaced the monasteries, Knipperdolling and his friend Gerhardt Kibbenbroeck pillaged the church of S.

  5. On the 30th January Colonel Crabbe's column (acting as a screen to a convoy of donkey waggons which, under its own escort, was some distance in the rear) was suddenly menaced by a swarm of Boers.

  6. Now and then, when some danger seemed to threaten him, either from Russia, Afghanistan, or the Tungani, he would devote considerable sums to the construction of forts in the line of the menaced position.

  7. Indeed, Yakoob Beg saw himself menaced by an unforeseen danger in this treaty of commerce.

  8. The surrender of these cities was not generally known in this country until April, 1877, when we also heard of Yakoob Beg's march eastward to protect his menaced frontier.

  9. Brigadier-General Yule, beset with anxiety concerning the Boer army, which had menaced his flank all day from Impati, had no thought but to secure his men in quarters before night and the still expected attack fell upon them together.

  10. Aeolus obedient to the goddess, dispersed the fleet and menaced them with complete destruction.

  11. If after we have given them their fill for years, That with which they are menaced come upon them at last, Of what avail will their enjoyments be to them?

  12. SAY: Ye are menaced with a day, which not for an hour shall ye retard or hasten on.

  13. These have faith in it: but the partisans of idolatry, who believe not in it, are menaced with the fire!

  14. So he continued to nourish in his soul a vague hope, menaced by a vague fear that sorely tried his courage and his faith.

  15. Two-thirds of their commercial class became insolvent A vast war-tax was incurred, and the very existence of the Union imperilled by the menaced secession of the New England States.

  16. It is remarkable that the Serapeum of Alexandria was, in the Sibylline books, specially menaced with destruction.

  17. The first ordered the destruction of all Christian churches and of all Bibles, menaced with death the Christians if they assembled in secret for Divine worship, and deprived them of all civil rights.

  18. In no country, notwithstanding, did the people arm, except in those that were immediately menaced by the Turks.

  19. He blamed the indifference of both monarchs and nations; and menaced Europe with the same calamities, if they did not speedily take up arms against the Turks.

  20. We may at this time compare the nations of Germany, menaced by the Turks, to the Greeks of the lower empire, whom history represents as given up to vain disputes, when the barbarians were at their gates.

  21. Tottering state of, when menaced by the Turks, iii.

  22. From that time the Tartar leader declared open war against the Christians, ravaged the territory of Sidon, and menaced that of Ptolemaïs.

  23. Charles's refuge at Avignon even was menaced by English threats directed at the Pope.

  24. Five hundred warriors rushed to the menaced spot, to prevent the landing.

  25. Whichever way they turned they were menaced by the most appalling dangers.

  26. I understand also that association with you involves me, and that I shall no doubt be menaced with bodily harm.

  27. Mrs. Mountstuart menaced him with her parasol.

  28. But she was jealous on behalf of her sex: her sex's reputation seemed at stake, and the purity of it was menaced by Clara's idle preference of the shallower man.

  29. Never has a larger and more powerful army menaced the Spanish authority since Tahi Mahi's attempt upon Chili.

  30. A living wall, formed of hundreds of Indians, rose in arms before him, and menaced him from all sides.

  31. Both the Spanish Governor Folch, in West Florida, and the Spanish General Herrera, in Texas, menaced the Americans.

  32. But the country has never had two statesmen less capable of upholding the honor and dignity of the nation, or even of preserving its material well-being, when menaced by foreign foes.

  33. This determined offensive on the part of the enemy, although it has menaced Ypres itself, has not so far the appearance of a great effort to break through the line and capture the Channel ports, such as that made in October.

  34. All the others are in the same case; proscribed by tribes, menaced with instant death by their enemies, they have sought a refuge with me.

  35. The divisions of Whig and Tory then shook England to her very centre, and a powerful party, engaged in the Jacobite interest, menaced the dynasty of Hanover, which had been just established on the throne.

  36. He was not frightened by the fate which menaced himself--he was agitated by the sacrifice which Furious announced and which he understood but too well.

  37. Rosalie looked about her and saw no one; and, in her extreme desire to gratify her curiosity, she forgot the goodness of the prince and the dangers which menaced them all if she yielded to this temptation.

  38. And, inevitably, it was the people who went, and the aristocrats who stayed behind; because the new idea favored the former and menaced the latter.

  39. To give edge to the predicament, the colony was menaced by covetous Virginia on one hand, and by fugitive Charles II.


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