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Recent Examples of demon KPop Demon Hunters follows a world-famous K-pop girl group who moonlight as demon hunters. Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025 But few of the directors who would join V/H/S over the years that followed introduced a more memorable creature — a birdlike demon who oscillates from purring affection to ravenous rage — or so skillfully tracked the running bodies captured by a running camera. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025 The answer is that the information the demon collects and stores about the molecular motions will eventually fill up its finite memory. Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025 But both men can't deny their inner demons, which threaten to burst out as the vacuum left by their absence invites figures looking to fill the void. Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for demon
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Noun
  • At that moment, there was no scene involving a devil, but that quickly changed.
    Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But this is no case study in the evils of devil-worshipping musicians.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Chavez faced his own share of torment.
    Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This time, Scott had a less metaphysical explanation for his torment.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The mushroom’s healing properties also lead to hallucinations, often involving mysterious white imps, who should be adorable and instead come across as menacing little ghouls.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • And Dot — well, Dot keeps an imp in an old wine bottle.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Or that the hamster her daughter kept begging, begging, begging Linda to get turns out to be a raging, biting terror?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement An investigation led by the Guardian found in September that out of the 6,000 Palestinians from Gaza held by Israel since the Hamas terror attack two years ago, only one quarter were held on suspicion of militant links.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the end of that spinoff, Billy joined forces with ghost Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) to find his brother.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Despite a few ghosts, Billy's has remained a popular spot, with pizzas and burgers being the go-to items on the menu.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Probably Solomon Kane was the biggest [influence] besides Conan, this kind of mashup of puritan warrior priest and vampires and monsters and the undead and all these things.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The 1987 horror-comedy, directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Richard Donner, follows two teenage brothers who move with their divorced mother to the fictional town of Santa Carla, California, only to discover that the town is a haven for vampires.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Forget goblins and ghouls—being secretly watched and filmed by a stranger is one of my worst fears, especially as a solo female traveler.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Most recently, the ghoul himself is portrayed by Charlie Hunnam in the third season of the Netflix horror anthology, Monster, but before the English actor took a stab at it, here are four other iconic films or TV series that were inspired by Gein's gruesome crimes.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Additionally, his pass-catching is a nightmare in one-on-one man coverage settings, so expect the Bills to try to avoid that as much as possible.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Today Shaw feels empowered to tell her side of the nightmare.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025

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