How to Use evil in a Sentence

evil

1 of 2 adjective

• It was an evil omen.
• The city has fallen on evil days.
• She drank an evil potion.
• An evil man who did evil things.
  — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
• What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
  — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
• This is good, this is evil, this is this, this is that.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
• Bud is the evil empire of beer.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• Irene makes an evil smile and heads out as the music swells.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
• There was good and evil in all societies.
  — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
• This pro-social swarm tries to defeat the evil swarm.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• No one set off my evil detector.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 May 2026
• But being evil aliens wasn't always on the cards.
  — Grace Dean, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
• Bad choices can result in evil acts.
  — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2026
• Everyone gets evil when the time calls.
  — Hazlitt, 17 Feb. 2026
• She’d been possessed by an evil spirit.
  — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• What is an evil twin Wi-Fi attack?
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2025
• In James’s mind, the evil forces in the world were set on his murder.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• But my sub-context was that theres always an evil shadow.
  — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
• Most don white tenugui scarves on their heads and amulets to ward off sharks and evil deities lurking in the sea.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
• Watch out evil world, there is an angel of consequence at the gates.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
• It’s also believed that the fire will drive away evil spirits.
  — Kate Franke, Woman's Day, 6 Apr. 2023
• And imagine a world with less evil and more compassion.
  — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2026
• Athena does a sapphire evil-eye look that is super-duper polished.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2026
• It was thought to keep evil spirits from entering homes.
  — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
• There will always be evil and darkness to overcome.
  — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
• Judy and her babysitter must fight off the evil spirits and try not to get possessed.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• In fact, one of the concerns is that there's sort of a new axis of evil forming.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• The evil effects weren’t just moral turpitude, but disease too.
  — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
• But think about the harm- the harm that this evil government has done to their own people.
  — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• Nothing sends chills down your spine like evil clowns, undead monsters and a filthy car.
  — Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025

evil

2 of 2 noun

• There's this dance of good and evil.
  — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• This is a war of evil against good.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Oct. 2025
• None of us are all good and all evil.
  — Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
• So please get ready for a choice of evils.
  — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
• Guy Pearce does do evil very well.
  — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
• This is a time for good to fight back against evil.
  — David French, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
• Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Is there a lesser of two evils?
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
• As far as true evil goes, that's not much of a crime at all.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
• Good doesn't triumph over evil.
  — CBS News, 10 May 2026
• There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 15 Dec. 2022
• Alas, evil is stronger than that, and the wheel keeps turning.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 May 2023
• This was a very large act of evil, for lack of a better term.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Helly, the innie, knows first hand that all of this is wrong and evil.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2022
• The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2022
• God did not place good and evil before man, telling him to make his choice.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
• Well, that fall from do-gooder to evil didn’t take long, now did it?
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 22 July 2021
• Of course, then, God also doesn’t send evil.
  — Lisa Rennie Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2026
• My oldest called me evil a couple weeks ago.
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
• And right now, the Democrats are the lesser of two evils.
  — Kiara Moore, The Washington Examiner, 20 May 2026
• The second one’s about the nature of evil.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2026
• Perhaps the phone call was deemed the lesser of two evils.
  — Dean Spiros, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
• And not all of it from a conscious place of evil or even cowardice.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 4 May 2018
• Now the forest breathes with evil, and a vampire lord has risen.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
• You guys fold, the evil just moves fast down underneath you all.
  — Amanda Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
• His intentions that day were pure evil.
  — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
• Our heroes in uniform are on the front lines of the fight against evil.
  — Gov. Kim Reynolds, Des Moines Register, 13 Jan. 2026
• Many have come to regard the email scourge as an evil of the modern age.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• At the desk, vowing to use my powers for good, rather than for evil.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2018