Example sentences for: sinister

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

  • To help sound the alarm, the NYSHD distributes a "Bat Rabies Alert" refrigerator magnet and a poster with a sinister bat silhouette: "If you see me, tell an adult."

  • To assume, though, as do Kutchins, Kirk, and many other left-oriented critics, that psychiatry is an inherently sinister enterprise, and that diagnosis--labeling people--is mean, is to ignore many of the ways psychiatry is used.

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

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

  • Stalin’s man, Mátyás Rákosi, established his sinister AVO secret police to ensure compliance with party doctrine.


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