Example sentences for: sinister

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

  • The publication of The Haldeman Diaries a month later, with its reminders of Nixon's scheming, sinister side, confirmed that Watergate would hardly be forgotten soon.

  • Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to "Pundit Central" 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies.

  • Indeed, Mr. Mason's call to purify English of Germanic influences reminds one of the French hysteria over “Franglais,” or of the more sinister years in this century when a “Telefon” become a “Fernsprecher,” a “Radio” become a “Rundfunk,” and so ordinary a personage as Mama became a Fricka-like “Mutti.”

  • Dublin's Irish Independent, reporting optimism in Dublin as well as London, said in an editorial that "the prize is within the negotiators' grasp": "If they fail to seize it, they will surrender to the sinister men lurking in the wings.

  • Something sinister is up, thought I.


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