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"Devil" in a Sentence (30 examples)
The director cast me as the devil.
If we pay the rent to the landlady, we won't have any money for food; we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Speak of the devil, here comes Kathy.
What the devil are you doing?
Talk of devil, and he's presently at your elbow.
When you talk of the devil you will hear his bones rattle.
Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.
Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear.
Give the devil his due.
The Devil may come.
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The devil in me wants to let him suffer.
Those two kids are devils in a toy store.
That math problem was a devil.
What in the devil is that?
What the devil is that?
She is having a devil of a time fixing it.
You can go to the devil for all I care.
For he will not leave his listener to dwell upon sorrow when the print office beckons and he can show you what a good little devil he became.
The formation of tornados and water-spouts is very probably identical with that of dust-storms and "devils," viz., a sudden disturbance of the vertical equilibrium of the atmosphere, where by an upward rush of air is generated, which rapidly becomes spiral.
There are few sights more appalling than a sandstorm in the desert, the "Zauba'ah" as the Arabs call it. Devils, or pillars of sand, vertical and inclined, measuring a thousand feet high[.]
devil strip
Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron.
The woollen things are torn to pieces by a machine having spiked rollers (termed a devil), cleansed, and the fibre spun with a certain proportion of new wool, the yarn being afterwards woven into the full-bodied but flimsy fabric termed shoddy.
He removes his food, water, and torch from the pack and then pushes it to the far end of the tent – no devil is going to rip his pack apart tonight.
In the 1800s, for example, workers at a wool company were scared that the devils would attack their sheep.
He did not repeat the scathing estimate of her character by Quatrefages, who at that time spent one afternoon a week devilling at the Consulate, keeping the petty-cash box in order.
Didn't secretaries write the speeches of Parliamentary "big-bugs"? Weren't the opinions of eminent lawyers often written by their juniors, read over and signed? Weren't briefs and pleadings devilled?
[…]; you could watch a buckwheat pancake whirled into existence under your eyes and see fowls' legs devilled, peppered, grilled, and tormented till they lost all semblance of the original Mariposa chicken.
She's going to devil four dozen eggs for the picnic.
Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.
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