How to Use Satan in a Sentence
Satan
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What’s more, the Elect see the works of Satan everywhere.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
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Now the voice is all her own, like Satan’s words made Lowell’s.
—Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps will come and parade before us.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2023
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On that sandy beach a decade ago, those men may have witnessed God’s holy army and the forces of Satan in their ancient battle.
—Lauren Green, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
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Biden to both Satan and beloved 1980s rocker Pat Benatar.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 June 2023
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By the film’s end, Terry has the lead role in a Broadway musical — and the spawn of Satan growing inside her.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 28 Sep. 2024
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In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Satan is described with bat wings that freeze hell over with a simple flap of the wings.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
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No one’s head takes a 360-degree turn and Satan is never invoked.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
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Jodi Hildebrandt convinced Ruby and Kevin that Satan was out to get her.
—Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
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And baritone Héctor Vásquez amuses as Aba, the town elder who plays Satan in the pastorela.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
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Johnny Depp may be adding Satan to his résumé of surprising roles.
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
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His article, based on anonymous sources, was interspersed with quotes from what Swindle said was the Book of Satan.
—Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
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Hell’s carnival barker leads visitors through a freak show with fire breathers, a knife thrower and the spawn of Satan himself.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
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The heroes face challenges including Satan, a headless corpse, and more.
—Kturnqui, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2023
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Can the Western Forces come up with a fighter strong enough to overpower literal Satan?
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
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Ibrahim was ready to do so, in faithfulness to Allah, even fighting off Iblis (Satan) when Iblis tried to convince him not to obey.
—USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
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And the state of Tennessee seems particularly in the hold of Satan thanks to the bright red devil here captured in its full-color glory.
—Susanna Ashton, JSTOR Daily, 23 May 2024
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The ancient Greeks did not conceive of Hades as the personification of evil a la Satan (though the underworld that Mitchell depicts is a hellish one).
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
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The Bible and Apocrypha are full of stories of those tempted by Satan’s natural world to leave behind Christendom.
—Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
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But please also bring back Peter Stormare, his Satan was my favorite Satan so far.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
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No doubt Milton risked building support for Satan among his readers.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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At least one sign was vandalized with a crude drawing of Satan, implying that anyone who would question the height of a spire on a Latter-day Saint temple must be in league with the devil.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
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Consider, the song’s entire music video and album artwork are both nearly pitch black, and wicked is the Bible’s most common descriptor of Satan.
—Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
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The posts alleged world affairs were controlled by a vast conspiracy of Democrats – who also worshiped Satan and abused children – and that Trump was part of a secret plan to vanquish them.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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The posts alleged world affairs were controlled by a vast conspiracy of Democrats – who also worshiped Satan and abused children – and that Trump was part of a secret plan to vanquish them.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
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The Lord of the Rings, with its empathy for decent little folk, is sentimental by comparison, a war of Satan and Elmo.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
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One Alabama pastor is even preaching that Satan was involved in the deception.
—Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
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Of course, Longlegs himself was apparently simply a pawn of Satan, a.k.a.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 12 July 2024
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Now, as a supporting character, Satan is not automatically going to join the fight on the side of the Loyalist States.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
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Hysteria! never fully tips its hand as to whether what’s happening is just a panic or whether Satan has actually come to town (though the final shot of the season makes a case for the latter).
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
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