How to Use imp in a Sentence

imp

noun

• The pointy-eared imp has even pulled off plenty of their own pranks on the dogs too.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
• William got a kick out of the little imp, and Gary was in awe of William.
  — Ira Silverberg, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
• The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
  — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• The stories about its little, red-haired imp and his pranks still retain cult status today.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021
• At her very best, Emily behaves like a petulant pre-adolescent spoiled imp.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
• The story being told is of the creation of the iconic imp Peter Pan.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• His ghost, riding a gray horse that spews fire from its nostrils, is sometimes accompanied by three glowing imps.
  — David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Oct. 2019
• In South African mythology, the tokoloshe is a malicious imp that preys on its victims at night.
  — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Maxwell's hypothetical imp would perch atop the dividing wall and open and close the shutter at will.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
• In a sense, Keough gets to play the film’s presiding artist, an imp of the perverse who sets things in motion just to see what might happen.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 29 June 2021
• Shakespeare set the play in Athens, where young lovers and bad actors find themselves in an enchanted forest where they are pranked by gods and imps.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 22 July 2019
• Bernard worked endless hours at the auction house because that’s what his evil imp of a boss (Alan Cumming) demanded.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
• Imagine a mischievous imp lurking in the shadows, eager to eavesdrop on your whispers to the AI or peek at its replies.
  — Moran Zavdi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The imp accomplished this by making heat flow from a cold compartment to a hot one in apparent violation of the second law.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
• In addition to elves and dwarves and imps there are also trolls and munchkins and leprechauns and a million other short-statured mystical characters.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• Your most basic attacker and defender, a creature spell can be anything from a demonic imp to the most pious angel.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2019
• These scampering imps are a distracting intrusion that shifts one’s attention away from the singers at crucial moments in the drama.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Mykal-Michelle Harris from Raven’s Home guest-stars as Ruby, a mischievous moon imp who tricks Vee.
  — Allison McClain Merrill, Parents, 27 Oct. 2025
• These carnivorous marsupials give birth to dozens of tiny, hairless imps—up to 50 at time—but only offer four teats in their pouches.
  — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• Together, the five –- plus an extra character, a pet imp named Beans – completed the Dire Dogs.
  — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 27 May 2022
• But Rumpelstiltskin, the magical imp who spun straw into gold, would be impressed with the latest chemical wizardry.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2020
• This potent symbol of Black life – of self-preservation, resistance + authenticity has an imp.
  — Asia Milia Ware, Teen Vogue, 31 Mar. 2020
• At 10 months, Mabel is a delicious imp, with the fair coloring of her mother and the gleeful expression of a hellion in training.
  — Judith Newman, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• The son is his father’s fiendish double, an antic, self-loathing imp who, loudly proclaiming his adoration of Eli-Leizer, makes a mockery of him.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
• Presiding above it all is Pesce himself, an imp in Issey Miyake, delighting in his creations, wonky and Wonka.
  — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
• Combining animation and live action, the film continues the adventures of the magical imp Pumuckl.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
• In addition to his considerable show business influence, Bragman was a notorious imp.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 5 Mar. 2023
• Encountering complacency that unrepentant was always a peculiar thrill, guaranteed to tickle my inner imp of the perverse.
  — Tom Carson, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Feb. 2018
• It’s believed that the 13th-century castle is haunted by a magical imp who frequently visits the Markomanka and Hlíza, or black, towers.
  — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025