How to Use sinister in a Sentence

sinister

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• There was something sinister about him.
• The sound effects make birdsong and wind in the trees seem sinister.
  — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2022
• The group promised Dre a pass for the festival, but there were more sinister plans involved.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 21 Mar. 2023
• But the toy turns out to be quite sinister — and has ties to Jessica herself.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• But Cat Person, the movie, appears ready to up the stakes with a much more sinister stalking plot and some over-the-top thriller touches.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2023
• Seeps of water spilled out of the escarpments here and there, creating sinister black stripes against the smoky gray of the cliffs.
  — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2023
• Why did the oil refineries around Carquinez Straits seem sinister to me in the summer of 1956?
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• Suffice to say, a sinister presence with a nice set of chompers is lurking in the cargo hold, and is able to make short work of the doomed crew.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
• Amid a sinister sonic backdrop, the song sets out a tale of women targeted in the night.
  — Andrew Casillas, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
• To engage with them was to look in a mirror and find a sinister creature staring back.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• So to make a movie where the biggest fan is this sinister force, the literal devil, just felt timely to me.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 26 July 2024
• When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• Machine Gun Kelly star in this thriller about an online truth or dare game that takes a sinister turn.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Aug. 2022
• From sinister secret rooms to mysterious razor blades, read on for the most bizarre finds of the bunch.
  — Jada Jackson, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2021
• Some, even people close to her, have more sinister designs.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• When a doctor with a rare blood disease attempts to cure himself, the result is a bit more sinister.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2022
• Fearing for his son’s safety as the sinister beach boys surround them, Cage relents and walks back up to the parking lot.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 May 2024
• But her instinct told her there was something sinister about this plume.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Their sinister goal is to take a kind-hearted person down the path of deception with their clever misdeeds.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Obviously, what the father does in that film is more sinister than what John does.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2022
• The ghosts who visit her there have something sinister to communicate to the new bride.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 31 July 2023
• Enter the antagonists, Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear, with sinister plans of their own.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023
• Is there something more sinister about Keith that Tess can’t see?
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022
• Or Gambon, with his more sinister twist on the character?
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Almost daily, the story of the shootings has grown more sinister and more sordid.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2021
• As if there is another face, a more sinister one, projected on top of it.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 7 July 2023
• For the past two years, a sinister third wheel had joined: crippling depression and anxiety.
  — Gary Gulman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
• And that would, of course, be a neatly Gödelian recursive arrangement, of a sinister turn.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
• Balmy does prove to be slightly sinister and fully absurd, in the way of self-important cult leaders everywhere, and Le Moulin even more so.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• The monumental amount of AI content on the internet, including tweets by bots, absurd pictures and fake reviews, has given rise to a more sinister belief.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024