Example sentences for: sadistic

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

  • It's also possible that Russell is too sadistic by temperament to make a fully convincing anti-war film.

  • He was a maestro, all right, but of the sadistic kind, and the movie's laughs didn't leaven its punishingly untranscendent misery--they condensed it.

  • Her beloved father, Elliott Roosevelt, is a kind-hearted drunk who dies at 34, hounded to the grave by a sadistic and mentally warped elder brother, who (perhaps smarting at having been outshone by Elliott in his youth) slanders him in public, fleeces him out of his money, turns his family against him, and seeks to get him institutionalized.

  • Azazel (who we're told is "sadistic, left-handed, and likes to sing") has the ability to flit from one human host to another simply through touch.

  • "The Japanese Want Your Guns": A sadistic Japanese prison guard bear deliberately spills a cup of water just out of reach of a very thirsty Brasco on the floor of his cell.


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