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.
• The worst was the evil man who perpetrated a hate crime...
  — Donna McGuire, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Carbs are not evil, as you may have been taught to believe.
  — Women's Health, 1 May 2023
• In James’s mind, the evil forces in the world were set on his murder.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Judy and her babysitter must fight off the evil spirits and try not to get possessed.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• The intense struggle between good and evil grips my heart.
  — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2020
• Once he’s gone, every evil thing on the map resurfaces.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 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
• 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
• This horror-comedy puts a new spin on the evil child trope.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2023
• It’s also believed that the fire will drive away evil spirits.
  — Kate Franke, Woman's Day, 6 Apr. 2023
• But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
  — Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2021
• Like the movie itself, the performance doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel in terms of how a good man goes evil.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2023
• She also may be possessed by an evil twin or something.
  — Vulture, 25 May 2023
• Some even said the lyrics sound more akin to the plight of millennial parents or dog owners than an evil king.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• The two found treasures take Mary above the clouds to a magical school that is threatened by an evil force.
  — Madison Douglas, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2023
• Perhaps there could be an evil Loki variant who pushes the good one off the throne?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• Some also believe eating the grapes helps ward off evil spirits.
  — Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2023
• In Arabic folklore, a ghoul is an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• One of them had to rescue the mom from a pack of deranged do-gooders, who told her adoption was evil.
  — Joy Woodson, Parents, 19 Jan. 2024
• There are both noble calls to the angels of our better nature and far-right racist demagogues who speak to the dark and evil side.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Still, that’s the fun of the game — learning which reality stars are ready to get evil and which ones should have stayed on the yacht.
  — Vulture, 14 Jan. 2024
• Antisemitism is evil and X will always work to fight it on our platform.
  — Alicia Diaz, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2023
• Among the whalers, Tuzroyluke has not created a faceless crew of evil men.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Which makes his big, evil reveal that much more compelling, and that much more believable.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• Sudeikis, with his cop sunglasses and evil little mustache, fits right in.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 31 May 2023
• The evil witch isn’t so successful in her endeavors either.
  — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Experts say the mirror, which is shaped like a shield, was also likely used to ward off evil spirits.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023

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evil

2 of 2 noun

• But the state lies in all the tongues of good and evil.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• It’s the fear of the loss of power that lets the evil in.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
  — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2020
• The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2022
• The hatred, the anger, the evil that spewed from his mouth.
  — Christian Boone, ajc, 25 June 2018
• Shows how much good there is amongst the evil that goes on.
  — Gillian Edevane, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
• For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
• But all this, even, is not the full extent of the evil.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The tongue is also a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Yes, the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Oct. 2021
• An evil to be overcome, along with the whole host of them.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• It’s the kind of evil that exists as a force of nature.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021
• Many have come to regard the email scourge as an evil of the modern age.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 14 Feb. 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
• Who knew that a packet of ramen could be used to fight the forces of evil?
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Alas, evil is stronger than that, and the wheel keeps turning.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 May 2023
• As with King, the source of all evil is a backyard shed.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• And not all of it from a conscious place of evil or even cowardice.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 4 May 2018
• Helly, the innie, knows first hand that all of this is wrong and evil.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2022
• In the same house, there is a box of jewelry and amulets to ward off evil.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2020
• My hope is that our teachers will look this evil in the eye and refuse to give in or back down.
  — Tiffany Crutcher, CNN, 14 May 2021
• These eight songs were full of romance and humor with just a touch of evil.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2018
• This group is for those who wish to speak out about the evils of Islam.
  — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2019
• But, at the end of the day, look, weakness arouses evil.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
• As with many grand premises, the show is all about the fight between good and evil.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• It’s not an evil that’s meant to steal time from people.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022
• God did not place good and evil before man, telling him to make his choice.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
• One of the best jokes in movie history is an apologia for evil.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024