How to Use evil in a Sentence

evil

1 of 2 adjective

• It was an evil omen.
• The city has fallen on evil days.
• She drank an evil potion.
• In James’s mind, the evil forces in the world were set on his murder.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Carbs are not evil, as you may have been taught to believe.
  — Women's Health, 1 May 2023
• The 13-year-old has something unique about him, and with his lovable pals, takes on the evil Weaver.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• In fact, one of the concerns is that there's sort of a new axis of evil forming.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• The worst was the evil man who perpetrated a hate crime...
  — Donna McGuire, kansascity.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Most don white tenugui scarves on their heads and amulets to ward off sharks and evil deities lurking in the sea.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
• Two of the evil Queen Beryl's lackeys, Kunzite and Zoisite, were gay male lovers.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 30 June 2017
• Once he’s gone, every evil thing on the map resurfaces.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• In West Africa, they were believed to be good luck charms to ward off evil spirits, thanks to the eye in the center of the bean.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, Chron, 27 Dec. 2022
• In a movie, this role is the evil adversary (e.g., Darth Vader in Star Wars).
  — Neha Sangwan, Fortune Well, 26 Sep. 2023
• Judy and her babysitter must fight off the evil spirits and try not to get possessed.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Like the movie itself, the performance doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel in terms of how a good man goes evil.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2023
• For all that, Karens for Hire promises to harness the power of Karens for good, not evil.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
• This horror-comedy puts a new spin on the evil child trope.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2023
• The intense struggle between good and evil grips my heart.
  — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2020
• It’s also believed that the fire will drive away evil spirits.
  — Kate Franke, Woman's Day, 6 Apr. 2023
• The two found treasures take Mary above the clouds to a magical school that is threatened by an evil force.
  — Madison Douglas, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2023
• In Arabic folklore, a ghoul is an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• The second part is set in the '70s and takes place at Camp Nightwing, a summer camp terrorized by an evil killer.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
• Still, that’s the fun of the game — learning which reality stars are ready to get evil and which ones should have stayed on the yacht.
  — Vulture, 14 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps there could be an evil Loki variant who pushes the good one off the throne?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• One of them had to rescue the mom from a pack of deranged do-gooders, who told her adoption was evil.
  — Joy Woodson, Parents, 19 Jan. 2024
• Wright plays Elodie’s evil mother-in-law, Queen Isabelle.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
  — Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 22 Feb. 2021
• Among the whalers, Tuzroyluke has not created a faceless crew of evil men.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Each play essential parts in the action, and do their fair share of conniving and derring-do to aid or defeat the grand, evil purposes of the bad guys.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• His purpose is to argue that the study of humanity’s beginnings is and always must be evil.
  — William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024

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evil

2 of 2 noun

• But the state lies in all the tongues of good and evil.
  — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
• It’s the fear of the loss of power that lets the evil in.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• The tongue is also a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• The hatred, the anger, the evil that spewed from his mouth.
  — Christian Boone, ajc, 25 June 2018
• The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2022
• There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
  — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2020
• Yes, the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Oct. 2021
• But all this, even, is not the full extent of the evil.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
• Shows how much good there is amongst the evil that goes on.
  — Gillian Edevane, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
• As with King, the source of all evil is a backyard shed.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• Alas, evil is stronger than that, and the wheel keeps turning.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 May 2023
• An evil to be overcome, along with the whole host of them.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• Helly, the innie, knows first hand that all of this is wrong and evil.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 8 Apr. 2022
• It’s the kind of evil that exists as a force of nature.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021
• But, at the end of the day, look, weakness arouses evil.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
• Gonzales-Day’s art is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
• This was a very large act of evil, for lack of a better term.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Also in theaters, find out the roots of the evil that is the Omen franchise in The First Omen.
  — EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
• Many have come to regard the email scourge as an evil of the modern age.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
• This group is for those who wish to speak out about the evils of Islam.
  — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2019
• In the same house, there is a box of jewelry and amulets to ward off evil.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2020
• Fresh in my mind are the years when fat, not carbs, was deemed the root of all dietary evil.
  — Susan Puckett, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
• Who knew that a packet of ramen could be used to fight the forces of evil?
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• The sad truth of it all, though, is that in this instance, evil prevailed.
  — SI.com, 5 June 2018
• It’s not an evil that’s meant to steal time from people.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022
• Holi signals rebirth — the triumph of good over evil at the beginning of spring.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• Sending them to the inferno, to a place where there is no safety is basically pure evil.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024