How to Use Satan in a Sentence

Satan

noun
  • Bridges was set to play the voice of God, with Depp cast as Satan.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 July 2025
  • What’s more, the Elect see the works of Satan everywhere.
    Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Now the voice is all her own, like Satan’s words made Lowell’s.
    Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Biden to both Satan and beloved 1980s rocker Pat Benatar.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • No one’s head takes a 360-degree turn and Satan is never invoked.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The 808s feel like drowning in a volcano, my skin peeling off as the visage of Satan reveals itself.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
  • Jodi Hildebrandt convinced Ruby and Kevin that Satan was out to get her.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Gregory Peck plays a diplomat who secretly adopts a baby who turns out to be the son of Satan.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 June 2025
  • The season premiere mocked Trump’s body in a raunchy manner and depicted him sharing a bed with Satan.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Johnny Depp may be adding Satan to his résumé of surprising roles.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For two wins back to back against Satan who was attempting to attack my family.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 1 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The heroes face challenges including Satan, a headless corpse, and more.
    Kturnqui, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Can the Western Forces come up with a fighter strong enough to overpower literal Satan?
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trump happily takes the gifts to bed with Satan… but Satan is looking for a way out of this toxic relationship.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But please also bring back Peter Stormare, his Satan was my favorite Satan so far.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
  • No doubt Milton risked building support for Satan among his readers.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In a new trailer for Season 27 Episode 2, the show’s version of Trump is seen groping Satan’s leg under a table during a public dinner event.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 July 2025
  • As a speaker is heard talking about honoring Trump's courage, the president rubs Satan's leg under the table.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 31 July 2025
  • 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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