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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing.
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The crammed loose boxes to his right seemed more menacing , as though the ugliest objects had been banished to this unvisited dungeon.
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That particular night seemed strangely different, and inexplicably the dark shadows seemed even more menacing than usual.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a deep, menacing voice
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One of the guards gave a low, menacing laugh.
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the dark, menacing sky
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There was something strange and rather menacing about the way she spoke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the break Smith proved the menacing player for Stockton but he was well dealt with by a hard working Stockton defence.
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It was as if menacing music had been played in a film, accompanying a scene of innocent happiness.
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Karpov is gradually building up the kind of position he likes with two bishops and a potentially menacing mass of central pawns.
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The fraud is always more menacing than the real thing.
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The house grew still but it was a menacing stillness, like that of a cat about to spring.
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This is the really menacing thing because in their obsession with proving themselves, they are pulling us all towards destruction.
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Very polite but - well - sort of quietly menacing .
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Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago.