Example sentences for: devil

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

  • After weeks of playing devil's advocate for Hussein, John McLaughlin ( The McLaughlin Group ) finally threw in completely with the dictator, endorsing Iraq's claim that Scott Ritter, the chief U.N. inspector, is a U.S. "spy" whose placement in Iraq was a "calculated and deliberate provocation."

  • There is a winding path to the top known as Gui Jian Chou (“Even the Devil is Terrified”) as well as a chair lift (20 minutes each way).

  • The assaults on plausibility began in the first frames of Con Air , as Nicolas Cage's character returned home from Operation Desert Storm in a tugboat, and did not subside until Sam Neill mutated into some kind of space devil at the end of Event Horizon , whereupon his face inexplicably broke out in a crosshatched design that made him look like a slab of grilled ahi tuna.

  • Old English mare in nightmare means demon or devil.

  • It is not a surprise, either, that Al Pacino chews the scenery in Devil's Advocate . And the idea that if the devil showed up on Earth he'd be running a New York corporate-law firm is also, to say the least, pre-chewed.


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