Example sentences for: sadistic

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

  • Outsiders think the Florida executioners are sadistic morons.

  • Buchanan claimed a measure of vindication when John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," a sadistic killer at Treblinka, had his conviction overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.

  • It's not so bad that the blows aren't heavily amplified, but when the bad guys get it there isn't that extra sadistic beat to let you know how surprised they are that their aura of invincibility has been punctured.

  • He loses friends, job, possessions, dignity: "The sadistic machine simply rolls over us."

  • In a 1954 book titled Seduction of the Innocent , a psychologist named Fred Wertham attacked the sadistic violence and sexual deviance portrayed in comic books.


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