Sample Sentences for
baleful
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  • Harry stared at it and the bird looked balefully back, making its gagging noise again.  (source)
    balefully = in a threatening manner
  • Glaring balefully over the top of her red-framed eyeglasses, she said...  (source)
  • Polyphemus's eyelids narrowed over his baleful milky eye, as if he were trying to see Clarisse more clearly.  (source)
    baleful = threatening
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  • The second nurse fixed me with a baleful eye.  (source)
    baleful = threatening
  • Rawlins eyed balefully that cauterized terrain.  (source)
    balefully = in a threatening manner
  • More sets of eyes join the first, baleful and slitted.†  (source)
  • ...while the young dudes in hooded sweatshirts stare balefully at the strange, bowlegged old white lady in Nikes and red sweats who slowly hobbles up the three flights of dark, urine-smelling stairs on arthritic knees to visit her best friend, Mrs. Ingram in apartment 3G.  (source)
  • Even from where Claude stood, the baleful rumble in the dog's throat was unmistakable.†  (source)
  • An ancient goldfish surfaced and looked balefully at her, then disappeared beneath the dark water.†  (source)
  • Pilgrim gave him a baleful look then looked back at the saddle.†  (source)
  • Marvin eyed him balefully for a moment, and then turned himself off.†  (source)
  • His deep voice added a baleful tone.†  (source)
  • The drivers of the trucks, an oppressed minority of two, have retreated into the cab of the sound truck to smoke cigarettes and glare balefully at the swarm of thrashers, their sworn enemies in the food chain of the highways.†  (source)
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