Example sentences for: evil

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

  • She also understands the importance of evil, both metaphysical (Voldemort), and human: Petunia and Vernon Dursley, the Muggle aunt and uncle who raise Harry in his orphanhood, along with their doted-on, sublimely piggish son Dudley, are grotesques worthy of Roald Dahl; Draco Malfoy, Harry's nemesis at Hogwarts, and Severus Snape (she's terrific with names), the diabolical potions teacher, are brilliant foils for Harry's flawed, instinctual goodness.

  • Dr. Evil's subtext of sexual jealousy has become his motive.

  • Actor-director-writer Robert Duvall's film--about a Pentecostal preacher who beats his wife's lover into a coma--is deemed "the best movie ever about a man of God" (David Denby, New York ). The film's strength is said to be its uncompromising psychological complexity: It shows the preacher as both very good and extremely evil, without lapsing into moral condemnation.

  • To fight the wave of evil flying monkeys shooting up so many schools and churches, and to buy a nicer boat.

  • "The most unsettling and dangerous aspect of his personality was his total inability to distinguish between good and evil," García Márquez tells us, in one of his only direct commentaries on his own cast of characters.


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