How to Use demon in a Sentence

demon

noun
  • It was thought to keep demons away and bring good luck to lovers.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 June 2024
  • All the demons and all the joy will be coming out on this one.
    Spin Contributor, SPIN, 16 July 2024
  • From there, each team faced its own demons, and some bowed out of the race.
    Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • Going through them for the book was going through a lot of the demons again.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 July 2023
  • Faye, the game’s heroine, is the last in a long line of demon hunters.
    Wired, 16 July 2022
  • The demon lies within, the movie says with a bloody, crooked smile.
    A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • These headache demons are more than the marshmallow of the season.
    Anna Liss-Roy, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • At the end of the film, Lorraine learns the demon's name and manages to banish it to hell.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There’s so much to do out in the world that has nothing to do with feeding those demons.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 July 2024
  • Barham is 40 and spent most of his 30s fighting demons of his own creation.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2024
  • For years, he had been plagued by nightmares of a green-eyed demon.
    Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • This day marks the death of the ruthless demon Narakasura, killed by Lord Krishna.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Why do demons, ghosts and killers put me at ease but sending a touchy email or text stops me in my tracks?
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Saving the world is a goal, but so is coming to terms with our inner demons.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The teen said their house was haunted and a demon was throwing bowls.
    CBS News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Zombies and demons and apparitions and creatures of the night.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the nighttime climax, Naru, her tribe’s last line of defense, calls the demon out.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Aries March 21 – April 19 Speaking your truth is a healthy way to release old demons.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
  • John bares his demons in a desperate plea disguised as the catchy theme song to the Fab Four's big-screen romp.
    and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The burning bones of a wood demon in a Finnish sauna reveal the emptiness of a future son-in-law.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The purpose of the cult in the apartment building was to bring forth the cosmic being (demon?
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Her fierce love for her poor brother, against whose demons she was girded to fight.
    Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The same goes for Viking warriors, woolly mammoths, and laser-eyed demons.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
  • The two don’t find much else to agree on (the demon will soon break things off with the sculpture), but modeling?
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • At the end of episode two, Miu is seeking revenge on the demon that has held her captive.
    Lane Brown, Vulture, 9 Jan. 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
  • Eleven and Max are part of an unstoppable crew out to save the world from a brain-melting demon,.
    Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Andra Day squares off with demons and a haunted house in her intense new film.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
  • Sara Padilla, Albuquerque Liam Payne taught me to not be afraid to be open about your demons.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Experts say the etchings were engraved there to ward off evil, trap demons and—in one case—curse an enemy.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024

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