Example sentences for: evils

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

  • The narrative is incessantly interrupted by cinematic placards, exhortations, lectures about staying in school (in the form of letters from the boy's dead mother, played by Lonette McKee), and inserts depicting the evils of drugs and alcohol.

  • He was enthusiastic--too enthusiastic, he realizes now--to bring glorious Marxism to his suffering people, to free Cambodia from the yoke of Vietnamese invaders, to abolish the twin evils of Western materialism and class privilege.

  • It has become uncomfortable for mom and dad to enjoy a beer or cocktail at the end of the day, lest junior regale them with the evils of drug and alcohol use.

  • 2 not as a failing of America--as he hardly could, having written before about the evils of an "overclass" that avoids military service and public obligations--but as a realistic factor to bear in mind when the country makes commitments.

  • A third-rate mystery tricked out with a great cast and some tony cinematography, the movie unspools like an elderly director's swan song--a bitter, late-Romantic threnody for the lost integrity of an American archetype, co-opted by the evils of a shabbily materialistic culture.


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