How to Use imp in a Sentence

imp

noun

• The pointy-eared imp has even pulled off plenty of their own pranks on the dogs too.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
  — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
• The story being told is of the creation of the iconic imp Peter Pan.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• In a sense, Keough gets to play the film’s presiding artist, an imp of the perverse who sets things in motion just to see what might happen.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 29 June 2021
• In South African mythology, the tokoloshe is a malicious imp that preys on its victims at night.
  — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• The stories about its little, red-haired imp and his pranks still retain cult status today.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021
• Shakespeare set the play in Athens, where young lovers and bad actors find themselves in an enchanted forest where they are pranked by gods and imps.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 22 July 2019
• It’s #Oscars week but imp awards are already being given to legends.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• Maxwell's hypothetical imp would perch atop the dividing wall and open and close the shutter at will.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
• His ghost, riding a gray horse that spews fire from its nostrils, is sometimes accompanied by three glowing imps.
  — David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Oct. 2019
• At 10 months, Mabel is a delicious imp, with the fair coloring of her mother and the gleeful expression of a hellion in training.
  — Judith Newman, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• In addition to elves and dwarves and imps there are also trolls and munchkins and leprechauns and a million other short-statured mystical characters.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• The imp accomplished this by making heat flow from a cold compartment to a hot one in apparent violation of the second law.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
• Presiding above it all is Pesce himself, an imp in Issey Miyake, delighting in his creations, wonky and Wonka.
  — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
• These carnivorous marsupials give birth to dozens of tiny, hairless imps—up to 50 at time—but only offer four teats in their pouches.
  — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• These scampering imps are a distracting intrusion that shifts one’s attention away from the singers at crucial moments in the drama.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Your most basic attacker and defender, a creature spell can be anything from a demonic imp to the most pious angel.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
• But Rumpelstiltskin, the magical imp who spun straw into gold, would be impressed with the latest chemical wizardry.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2020
• The Dada imp’s word games and visual pranks were busily bumping off Picasso as the primary influence on the ’60s American avant-garde.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• A giant metal statue guarding a sandstone temple may pick your characters up and slam them into the ground for instance, while a group of imps will teleport around a room and prevent your party from getting a bead on them.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 June 2017
• The article also mentioned a legend that, after Master’s death in 1796, a workman saw him shackled and riding on horseback, begging for mercy, with three imps following him.
  — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Nov. 2019
• This potent symbol of Black life – of self-preservation, resistance + authenticity has an imp.
  — Asia Milia Ware, Teen Vogue, 31 Mar. 2020
• Of course, there is only the faintest connection between nursery tales and Chinese factories churning out Christmas decorations: no elves with pointed ears nor mischievous imps assisting Santa Claus.
  — François Lévêque, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2019
• Hell on Earth is imminent, and Coy Blackler’s only real ally is Harper, a fellow test pilot/guinea pig whose symbiotic relationship with a cherubim-ish imp also is highly unstable.
  — al, 23 July 2021
• Encountering complacency that unrepentant was always a peculiar thrill, guaranteed to tickle my inner imp of the perverse.
  — Tom Carson, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Feb. 2018
• Are Descartes’ almost perfect illusionist, Laplace’s nearly omniscient intelligence and Maxwell’s entropy-resistant imp really as tangible as a microchip or a shock wave?
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
• The pointy-eared imp has even pulled off plenty of their own pranks on the dogs too.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
  — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024