How to Use daemon in a Sentence

daemon

noun
  • Will has no daemon, relations turn frosty and Lyra flees.
    Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 2020-11-17
  • Others cite the ancient Greek myth of Lamia, a blood-lusting daemon who also fed off children.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 2022-09-07
  • Lyra’s daemon is Pantalaimon, or Pan, who is usually a snow-white ermine.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 2022-12-22
  • The Fleabag creator voiced Scott's character's daemon, the animal form of his soul, in season 2.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 2022-03-05
  • The company is able to analyze and detect attacks by running a background program known as a daemon on every server in every data center.
    Beth Kindig, Forbes, 2021-12-23
  • Everyone has a companion daemon in the form of an animal—part of their spirit that resides outside the body—and Lyra's is named Pantalaimon.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2022-10-07
  • For an artist dedicated to dissolving boundaries between disciplines, the spider is an eminently suitable daemon.
    New York Times, 2022-02-07
  • If all that weren’t enough, every character in Pullman’s world has their soul physically exemplified by a daemon, an animal expressing their inner nature.
    David Benedict, Variety, 2021-12-08

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