Example sentences for: evils

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

  • 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.

  • The Greek myth of Pandora's box is one that most of us recall vaguely: though Pandora was told not to open that box, of course she did--at which point all manner of evils flew out, making our world one of pestilence, famine, death, and destruction.

  • At this point, poor Mickey can either bid $21 to get $20 (accepting a $1 loss) or drop out and pay $19 for nothing; he opts for the lesser of two evils and bids $21.

  • Sixty percent of the electorate judged Richard Nixon the least of three evils.

  • What causes more of a stir is the book's assertion that "given the nature and the magnitude of the crimes committed in its name, communism was fully the equal of Nazism as one of the supreme evils of our century" and the question it raises of whether "the history of the twentieth century hasn't given us objective and final proof … that human nature itself is fallen and twisted at its core" (Scammell).


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