How to Use Satan in a Sentence

Satan

noun

• What’s more, the Elect see the works of Satan everywhere.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps will come and parade before us.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Biden to both Satan and beloved 1980s rocker Pat Benatar.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 June 2023
• In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Satan is described with bat wings that freeze hell over with a simple flap of the wings.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• No one’s head takes a 360-degree turn and Satan is never invoked.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• And baritone Héctor Vásquez amuses as Aba, the town elder who plays Satan in the pastorela.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
• Johnny Depp may be adding Satan to his résumé of surprising roles.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• His article, based on anonymous sources, was interspersed with quotes from what Swindle said was the Book of Satan.
  — Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The heroes face challenges including Satan, a headless corpse, and more.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2023
• Can the Western Forces come up with a fighter strong enough to overpower literal Satan?
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
• Ibrahim was ready to do so, in faithfulness to Allah, even fighting off Iblis (Satan) when Iblis tried to convince him not to obey.
  — USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• And the state of Tennessee seems particularly in the hold of Satan thanks to the bright red devil here captured in its full-color glory.
  — Susanna Ashton, JSTOR Daily, 23 May 2024
• The ancient Greeks did not conceive of Hades as the personification of evil a la Satan (though the underworld that Mitchell depicts is a hellish one).
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
• The Bible and Apocrypha are full of stories of those tempted by Satan’s natural world to leave behind Christendom.
  — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• At least one sign was vandalized with a crude drawing of Satan, implying that anyone who would question the height of a spire on a Latter-day Saint temple must be in league with the devil.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Consider, the song’s entire music video and album artwork are both nearly pitch black, and wicked is the Bible’s most common descriptor of Satan.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• The posts alleged world affairs were controlled by a vast conspiracy of Democrats – who also worshiped Satan and abused children – and that Trump was part of a secret plan to vanquish them.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
• The Lord of the Rings, with its empathy for decent little folk, is sentimental by comparison, a war of Satan and Elmo.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• Now, as a supporting character, Satan is not automatically going to join the fight on the side of the Loyalist States.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
• Litigation around Satan Clubs arose in 2023 when a school board in Pennsylvania refused to allow a club to meet in an elementary school.
  — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 21 July 2023
• In 1995, Lauderdale finally got into the studio with Satan’s Pilgrims.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• But Cassidy’s words are partially right: Christians need not accept the legitimization of Satan.
  — Matthew Malec, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• Students must have signed parents' permission to take part in Satan Club activities.
  — CBS News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Impaler explores Dracula’s bloody history and his tenure at Satan’s legendary seminary of the dark arts, the Scholomance.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• The animals were seen vanishing and transforming, and Clarke, in supplying her persecutors with the story of her seduction by Satan, said that they had been born from a fall into sin.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Suspenseful music played over dramatically backlit images of father and son posing with flags and symbols of the Great Satan.
  — Kylie Moore-Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Roman Polanski’s brooding slow-burner about a Manhattanite who gives birth to Satan’s spawn is no-joke occult viewing.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
• The star point guard had repeatedly promoted a film, Hebrews to Negroes, that peddled ugly nonsense about Jews worshiping Satan.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• During this time, Jesus was repeatedly tempted by Satan yet remained resolute in fasting and prayer.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
• But here murder is motivated not by Satan, but by a loophole in ecclesiastical doctrine, which states that a murderer might attain forgiveness and die in God’s grace, where a suicide cannot, and must be damned.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024