Example sentences for: sinister

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

  • Stalin's face juxtaposed with Lenin's bier in a 1939 photomontage can be imagined as mourning only by an effort of will; he is sidelit, vampiric, sinister--but then Stalin rarely fails to look sinister in photographs, and this is not merely a matter of the viewer's preconceptions.

  • An encounter in the school bathroom leads to an affair with a sinister classmate named Judas.

  • My favorite Cornwellian clunker is a cheap bid for sinister atmosphere, the Scary Noun.

  • In recent years la migra has acquired a much more sinister image as individual abuses are shown on television evening news programs.

  • 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.


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