How to Use satanic in a Sentence

satanic

adjective
  • The alt-right is contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ and Satanic to the core.
    Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 15 June 2017
  • In the comics, Agatha has a satanic son named Nicholas Scratch.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This is it, my friends: 2016 has gone in a puff of evil Satanic smoke, and good riddance.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2017
  • The Arizona chapter of the satanic group formed in 2015.
    Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 12 July 2019
  • Despite its satanic nature, the sound can be heard in the opening theme tune to Fox’s The Simpsons.
    Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • Levi drops in a deep inhuman sound, like the roar of a satanic bellows.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Smith also donned a satanic top hat, as huge flames heated up the stage.
    Charna Flam, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Witches, and Americans, have come a long way since the days of satanic alarm.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The fate of the world hangs in the balance when a cleric battles an ancient satanic force for a young woman’s soul.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Some people asked about a satanic cult or the Freemasons.
    Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • When the woman reaches the end of her pregnancy she is stabbed in the stomach by a satanic cult.
    Fox News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Police searched Hardin’s home and found a satanic bible and other books, as well as a washcloth soaked in blood.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Jan. 2018
  • But a Supreme drop isn’t just about box-logo tees and satanic appliqué.
    Sam Schube, GQ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • With satanic killers on the loose, can anyone be trusted?
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Mart scoffed at the notion that the monuments were satanic.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Over the years, Farrakhan, who leads the Nation of Islam, has referred to Jews as termites and satanic.
    Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But yeah, it’s got this huge, imposing door and all these creepy kind of satanic gargoyles.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Anatoly Marchenko died from a hunger strike in 1986, and a couple of years later the satanic Soviet Union fell to pieces.
    Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • There has been a satanic priest, prostitutes, thieves and much else on the road to redemption and sainthood.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
  • While that actually isn’t the plot of the second film, the remnants of the satanic panic do linger on today.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Tips have poured in, with some of the more outlandish ones blaming satanic worshipers or the Islamic State.
    Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 13 May 2016
  • But the group of satanic worshipping teens isn't the only that's off — an ad promoting the movie on Netflix is too.
    Brianna Wiest, Teen Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But the scene is played for laughs with no promotion of a satanic theme or further mention of Satan.
    Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The satanic panic of the time was definitely at the spine of my character.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 2 June 2022
  • And lo, a cavalry of screen-ready revivalists has arrived to wage the End Times war against the satanic infantry.
    Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The Tsar and the Tsarina were often portrayed as puppets in his hands in this tangling satanic mass that was his beard.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Strangers road-tripping in Italy find themselves in the center of a satanic cult after crashing their RV.
    Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • To devise a bill that will criminalize the people who vote for you is satanic.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • When the teen killed himself, a year after he was found alive, news accounts depicted D&D as a satanic cult.
    Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • More effective as a driver of spooky action is Kane’s reading of the satanic panic.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024

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