Example sentences for: demons

How can you use “demons” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Watching Johnson and Nixon visit their private demons on the nation made the public correctly curious about candidates' hidden selves.

  • "Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Head cheerleader Andie Pamerson decides to remove her breast implants because they're possessed by demons."

  • Although Grille (in Grillen im Kopf haben) means, quite correctly, cricket in its first and literal meaning, and strange and surprising idea in its figurative sense, it ought to be mentioned that there is a direct, traceable link between the two: Grille acquired its figurative sense in the 16th century when—at least in Germany—the superstition prevailed that the demons of illness appeared in the guise of an insect.

  • For 49 days he resisted demons and temptresses, and became truly Enlightened — Buddha as he is called today.

  • Critics draw parallels to Susan Cheever's memoir of her father, Home Before Dark , but find this book less shocking because unlike John Cheever, Dickey Sr.'s demons were widely publicized.


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