Example sentences for: devil

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

  • 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.

  • For example, at the devil to pay (and no pitch hot ), the note reads, “Colloquial.

  • References to the Jews as the children of the devil or as constituting a "Synagogue of Satan" appear in the New Testament, implying that they are in league with the devil.

  • He has become as repetitious, pontificating, and slothful as the worst D.C. pundit--as ridiculous as the political reporters he mocked in Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 . Thompson poured acid on Nixon because he honestly believed Nixon was a devil.

  • The Spanish Catholic missionaries worked hard to convert the indigenous populations of New Spain, and any non-Christian belief that was not acceptable to the Spanish friars was often attributed to sin, evil, the devil, or witchcraft.


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