Example sentences for: malevolent

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

  • The same malevolent powers also operate in the opposite direction.

  • Assorted police goons--among them the dependable heavy Frank Vincent and the blue-eyed, blankly malevolent Robert Patrick, the lethal shape-shifter of Terminator 2: Judgment Day --let the sheriff know he'd better turn his deaf ear on Ray's chicanery.

  • Klein's goal is to transform an uncontrolled and miserable hatred of fat (his and yours) into a flabophilic delight that, by robbing fat of its malevolent power, will lead to becoming thin.

  • Almost anyone, even the most sociopathic of sociopaths, can get through the occasional interaction like that without seeming malevolent.

  • The fact that each book so far allows him a greater measure of fallibility--and that some characters seem to slip and slide in the twilight zone between benign and malevolent wizardry--suggests that Rowling may be aware of these possibilities.


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