Example sentences for: sinister

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

  • Stories about child molesting are populated by evil monsters and helpless innocents (rather than flawed or unfortunate humans), and they languish in a miasma of sinister eroticism.

  • In Venice, every vendor sells the same bad ice cream, evidently at the behest of a conglomerate whose boats we saw unloading their sinister cargo at various docks.

  • The TV keeps up an endless, sinister JonBenet chatter: "The search is still on for that missing Aspen woman."

  • Bin Laden may not be quite as masterful as Blofeld, and Miller may not be quite as sinister as Mr. Big, but they're closer to them than we might think.

  • Therefore, your continual use of "Kill him," as in, "When we told Bill Gates the name of the person responsible for the mistake, he said, 'Have him killed,' " takes on a sinister, real meaning.


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