How to Use devil in a Sentence

devil

1 of 2 noun

• She is a tricky devil, so be careful.
• He's such a lucky devil that he'll probably win the lottery someday.
• Those kids can be little devils sometimes.
• There wasn't enough left of the poor devil to add two and two.
  — PCMAG, 14 Feb. 2023
• Think of devil’s food in Bundt form!
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
• One nun's habit was adorned with giant devil's horns.
  — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• Devil 2 treats the work more earnestly.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• Or, as would be more accurate for the genre, a devil gets its horns.
  — Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
• Surrounding the pools were lime-green devil’s club and lush ferns.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
• And not walking down the path with the devil is probably a good idea.
  — Vulture, 29 Dec. 2022
• Their faith gets shaken to its core due to the omnipresence of a devil in a cave.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
• While those numbers look strong on the surface, the devil is in the details.
  — Beth Ann Bovino For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 13 June 2022
• Is chocolate devil’s food cake with ganache your favorite birthday cake?
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
• The devil would be in the details of how these teams were chosen, and what stakes—if any—would be on the line.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2022
• This is the aforementioned devil’s chair.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
• The term Jab Jab itself comes from the French term for devil.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025
• The angel and devil on your shoulders may fight for dominance at this time.
  — Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
• Both ads feature elements of truth, but the devil is in the details.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• But this is no case study in the evils of devil-worshipping musicians.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
• This show is about a middle-aged man who makes a deal with the devil to become a baseball player.
  — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• After a line of flames had been extinguished, the ash devil rose from the embers.
  — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
• One is a drawing by a boy named CJ that appears to show his dad with devil horns.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
• At that moment, there was no scene involving a devil, but that quickly changed.
  — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
• If his dad is his guardian angel, looks like Dexter now has a devil on his shoulder, too.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 5 Sep. 2025
• That didn’t happen in this case, though, and the ash devil eventually just fell apart.
  — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
• Maybe the little devil on your shoulder can pull up a lawn chair and grab you stuff from the fridge every so often.
  — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 13 July 2026
• The initial choice to do the devil sparked a lot of conversation in the fandom.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 27 June 2022
• Of course, the devil is always in the details—and those haven’t been fleshed out yet, Lake admits.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 26 Oct. 2022
• In so many fairy tales, somebody has a dialogue with Death or with the devil or with an angel.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• To some, the three-way relationship was a bargain with the devil — in fact, two devils.
  — Norman Kempster, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023

devil

2 of 2 verb

• Her secret to deviled eggs known far and wide.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
• Starters range from calamari to deviled egg flights to a salmon and crab cake stack.
  — Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 27 Dec. 2025
• Plain deviled eggs are served with a side of pickled vegetables, bacon jam and black pepper.
  — Justin Brown, AJC.com, 12 July 2026
• Try it on noodles, rice, tacos, soup, and if your Southern heart will allow it, even deviled eggs.
  — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025
• Donna Morgan is dreaming about shrimp and okra, deviled eggs with onions, and porgy.
  — Mara Gay, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2017
• Ellerbee’s Fine Food featured deviled egg tartlets with bright dill and a sliver of salmon.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026
• It can be poached, scrambled, scotched, roasted, hard-boiled, devilled, pickled, and soft-boiled, all by itself.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
• Grilling deviled eggs may not be traditional, but the smoky flavor will make this a cookout standout.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 15 June 2026
• Dishes range from lobster aguachile or deviled beet eggs to hearty mains like bone marrow short rib pappardelle or shrimp tamales with crispy yuca.
  — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026
• Its lobster deviled eggs, garlic truffle oil fries, and pumpkin patch ravioli are musts.
  — Nadine Jolie Courtney, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2016
• There's nothing better than a party platter that stars cheese, deviled ham, and seasonings.
  — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2025
• Also, deviled eggs and cut pineapple were still in the display case and being offered for sale after their discard date.
  — Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 13 Jan. 2026
• The menu includes ratatouille with poached eggs and speck, deviled eggs with pork belly rillettes, and avocado toast with six-minute egg.
  — Hadley Tomicki, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• Think small-bite items like beef-tongue sliders, pastrami deviled eggs and gefilte croquettes—the latter a play on the Jewish staple of gefilte fish.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2017
• Those gathered snacked on risotto cakes, beef tenderloin carpaccio, and deviled quail eggs or queued up for old fashioneds, sidecars, or gin and tonic libations.
  — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
• It’s also designed to better accommodate female astronauts, a problem that has deviled the space agency in the past.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
• Two Southern classics, deviled egg and potato salad, collide to create these tiny delicacies.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
• As the standing-room-only shop fills up with customers, owner Crystal Carter works swiftly, doling out crab muffins and deviled crabs to eight customers in a matter of minutes.
  — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
• Two popular appetizers are truffle and prosciutto deviled eggs and oysters with cucumber mignonette, Britton said.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
• Phillip, a veteran chef and Johnson & Wales alum, handles the savory menu, which includes roasted beet and deviled egg tartines ($10) and a roasted vegetable cassoulet.
  — Laurie Woolever, charlotteobserver, 26 Jan. 2018
• Fuller returns this season after leading the Red Devils with more than 1,000 rushing yards and double that in all-purpose production as a junior.
  — Kyle Williams, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2017
• The new protagonists are bound to run into beloved characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 — some of them heroes, some of them villains, some of them literally devils — who occupy the same world.
  — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2026