How to Use bedevil in a Sentence

bedevil

verb

• The theory bedevils scientists, none of whom have been able to prove it true or false.
• The project has been bedeviled by problems since its inception.
• For more than two decades, this type of crime has bedeviled the country.
  — Steven Gordon, Quartz Africa, 9 Sep. 2019
• The is not the first hiccup to have bedeviled the new 007 adventure.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 4 June 2019
• Still, for all of that, there’s one number that bedevils Ovechkin.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2018
• But just how much, and what land Turkey should give up, has bedeviled four decades of talks.
  — Agence France-Presse, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
• Sean Hjelle took the mound in the sixth, and he, too, was bedeviled by singles, giving up four in the seventh and three runs to go with it.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
• Fanned by the Santa Ana winds that have bedeviled the whole region all week, the firestorm raced toward town.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2017
• The claim is the latest in a string of maneuvers that have bedeviled Trump and Cohen.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2018
• His beard is flecked with gray now, his soul bedeviled by the ghost of Alice Morgan.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 28 May 2017
• To top it off, she is being bedeviled by voices that mock and tease her.
  — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 18 May 2018
• Rich and Green had sent them as a Christmas prank to bedevil his pursuers.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
• There are a lot of problems that bedevil us that are difficult, and this is not one of them.
  — ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2021
• That’s what has most bedeviled this effort from the start — even more than the specific substance of the land-use changes.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 5 Dec. 2018
• Walker, the Hornets’ lone All-Star, has bedeviled the Magic for years.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• As the Earp heir, Wynonna is fated to protect the hamlet of Purgatory — and the world — from the demons that bedevil the town.
  — Maureen Ryan, New York Times, 6 July 2018
• The gap in his résumé is the same one that bedeviled his rival Phil Mickelson for so long.
  — Harry Hurt, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2014
• The debate over buy-backs is bedevilled by six muddles.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• In 17th-century Europe, the dead were a constant threat to rise again and bedevil the living.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Sabathia had bedeviled them in Game 3 with six shutout innings built on 38 sliders.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• But even though the fires may well keep raging through the summer, their smoke might not bedevil quite as many people as the current smoke has.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
• Though he’s been retired for years now, he’s still bedeviled by its details.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 8 Apr. 2018
• This is a question that has bedeviled a lot of candidates.
  — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2019
• The Cubs bedeviled Kershaw in their only game against him this season.
  — Paul Skrbina, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• But the official in-universe story of the dice has been bedeviling fans for decades.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 19 June 2017
• Those fears may also bedevil a Didi attempt to list in Hong Kong.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
• The official in-universe story of the dice has been bedeviling fans for decades.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 14 Dec. 2017
• The problem of evil has bedeviled Christian thinkers from the beginning.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
• That’s a question that’s been bedeviling Ukraine since the Russian invasion of February 2022.
  — David Cox, NPR, 19 Sep. 2024
• Rancour within the coalition, and their ongoing inability to tackle head on the issues bedevilling Germany, could lead to a formal break of the coalition or potentially a vote of confidence in Scholz, and he is replaced.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024