How to Use minion in a Sentence
minion
noun-
In the spot, Dressel gets the last laugh on a pesky minion.
— Jethro Nededog, EW.com, 10 June 2021 -
All bought and paid for by a rapist and his evil minions.
— Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019 -
And, if that wasn't enough, Singh's minions find them and they're forced to jump ship.
— Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 27 Feb. 2023 -
And, the presence of the Bokor and her minions in St. Roch Cemetery seems well . . .
— Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 21 Mar. 2018 -
The cat in this video seems to have learned to get his human minion to open the door by knocking.
— Liz Langley, National Geographic, 11 June 2019 -
The only way to kill the beast is to take down its minions, to remove the discomfort.
— Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 10 Oct. 2016 -
Silver’s minions could take a little of the wiggle room out of the rules, and that would no doubt help.
— Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2020 -
Their two-year-old son stood in front of the minion character.
— Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 2 Oct. 2019 -
Trump and his minions tell us that the police who shoot us are outliers.
— Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 19 Dec. 2017 -
Even so, Kim Jong Un's minions got away with $81 million in that heist.
— Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017 -
To the old me, calling someone a minion was to use fighting words.
— John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019 -
Even so, Kim Jong-un’s minions still got away with $81 million in that heist.
— David E. Sanger, David D. Kirkpatrick and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2017 -
The whole thing might as well all be written in Minions chatter.
— Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 29 June 2017 -
Read about the time Carell was gifted a Minion suitcase here.
— Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 30 June 2017 -
And that very likely was the result of work that Rudy Giuliani and some of his minions were doing in Ukraine.
— NBC News, 29 Sep. 2019 -
This weekend, just as the Guardian/Times scoop was hitting the fan, Trump and his minions went on something of a bender.
— Will Bunch, Philly.com, 18 Mar. 2018 -
Those sniveling toads are too afraid of losing the electoral support of Trump and his minions.
— GQ, 11 Oct. 2017 -
Call us suckers, but the thought of dancing minions is very appealing to us.
— Leila Cobo, Billboard, 23 June 2017 -
Mal is led by this minion into Baghra's cave, where Tofin has already been murdered, and a fight breaks out.
— Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021 -
Nero Wolfe may have had Archie Goodwin to do the legwork and take his guff, but Johansson has his own minions.
— Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 7 June 2017 -
Likes: Leading millions of minions on a wild-goose chase to a fabled heaven.
— Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019 -
The baker, iron worker and scholar endure while the king and his minions perish.
— Eric Ormsby, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018 -
Meanwhile, Michael's minion demons get more and more restless and demand rewrites.
— Noah Berlatsky, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2018 -
Meanwhile, Michael’s minion demons get more and more restless and demand rewrites.
— Noah Berlatsky, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018 -
How does Logan still hold steel-wire leashes on his minions and his investors?
— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019 -
The temperance movement is upturned by drinking songs and free beer passed out by the dandy minions.
— Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018 -
Kiddos and grandkids may enjoy making their own with a theme like Frozen or Minions in mind.
— Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 1 Mar. 2017 -
But in a dark turn, Dolores wakes Teddy in the middle of the night and leads him into a barn, where her minions forcefully grab and pin him down.
— Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2018 -
Both minions are clad in robes and look like extras in Jesus Christ Superstar.
— Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024 -
Her minions proceed to spread news that dragons are now available for long-term lease to anyone who might be Targaryen by blood.
— Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'minion.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: