How to Use demonic in a Sentence

demonic

adjective
  • Yes, there’s a demonic agent of chaos with six limbs and a mouthful of huge teeth.
    Vulture, 19 Oct. 2022
  • What do a lost cat, a demonic lamb, and a cute fox have in common?
    WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Hikers to this day have claimed to hear demonic voices in the park.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
  • What if the film had been a success, and Cosby had been typecast as demonic?
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • They are confronted by a demonic force that risks their faith and their lives.
    Allison Argueta-Claros, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Doctor Strange was in the right place at the right time when a giant demonic monster appeared in New York.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 9 May 2022
  • But even the demonic Klan didn't plan on Maryse Boudreaux and her resistance fighters, who have the arsenal and the fury to take down the white hoods.
    Lizz Schumer, goodhousekeeping.com, 16 May 2023
  • The house will transport guests to a busy Haiti street market, where a strange folk doll with three eyes helps open a demonic portal.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
  • His persona is of Ghost’s demonic pope, preaching of war and plague like a doom prophet amid heavy guitar riffs and vivid pop melodies.
    Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Ellen Burstyn reprised her role as Chris MacNeil, who now must help two young girls possessed by a demonic force.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • After the match, Edge and Priest shared a demonic laugh and posed, indicating the two will soon be a force in the tag team division.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Based on the book of the same name, The Exorcist is about the demonic possession of a young girl after an encounter with a Ouija board.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Again, though, the most striking aspect of the video is the thunderous crackle coming from the car’s V-10, which takes on a demonic tone as soon as Kirchhöfer puts the petal to the metal.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 July 2023
  • Nun was a prequel spinoff from The Conjuring 2 and featured Bonnie Aarons as a demonic nun.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The Pope’s Exorcist is the latest in a long line of films pitting priests against demonic forces, the most famous of which being The Exorcist (1973).
    Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • It's been a while since Titans last explored its occult side, or the demonic heritage of Raven (Teagan Croft).
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Doom plants you in the combat boots of a soldier who must fight off demonic creatures in space (and, um, hell) using an arsenal of bloody weapons.
    Keith Langston and Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 May 2023
  • He’s tagged in Exorcist star Ellen Burstyn (now 90 years old) to consult on a case of demonic possession for not one but—gasp!—two teenage girls.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Upon first glimpse, Geralt takes a swig of a liquid that transforms his eyes into a deep, demonic state.
    Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • When Tyrone the demonic socket puppet comes alive on Jason’s hand, all hell breaks loose.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And there was a sense in which these predatory forces, these little demonic forces, were always after me.
    Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2022
  • In the film, a group of teenagers treat demonic possession like a party drug, and there’s cell phone footage shown of people convulsing during it.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Centered on a creepy, demonic boy named Damien, the film, which starred Gregory Peck, became one of the highest-grossing blockbusters of that year.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • In English literature and folklore, a black dog was a demonic hellhound that served as an omen of death.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Heather begins talking to Daisy through the TV, showcasing some demonic quirks.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Well, on Thursday it was revealed that the spray paint was not the work of a disgruntled viewer nor some demonic force, but the series' own producers.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2022
  • There are grim portraits of Putin, portrayed as a demonic figure surrounded by chaos and war.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The presence of a vampire kind of messes with his view, and the drama, what there is of it, emerges from how the film makes this demonic intrusion feels unprecedented.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Check out Badgley and Meester's demonic stroll down Memory Lane in the clip below.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 May 2022
  • The ska band brilliantly scores the song as a horror story, complete with demonic chorus and scary-movie organ.
    Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022

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