How to Use demon in a Sentence

demon

noun
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  • Even the happy-go-lucky Joel has demons of doubt and past trauma.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Kristen comes out, and the demon goes away, but the mark on Kurt’s nose is still there.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Tua gets to throw to speed demon Waddle when Miami has the ball.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2021
  • In that case, the main character is probably the p*nis demon.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
  • At that moment, nobody knew about the demon lurking behind one of those sliding doors.
    — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • His speech finished and his work apparently done, the demon left the girl, overcome by the power of the martyrs’ relics.
    — Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
  • My young mind couldn't handle the concept of Freddy Krueger, a demon who could appear in your dreams and kill you in your sleep!
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Getting muscular invited an old demon back into the house.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Ben comes across a tattoo on the cadaver’s head, and, surprise but not surprisingly, it’s one of the demon sigils.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Suddenly her right leg jerked and jumped as if possessed by some demon spirit — the movement was fast and erratic and lasted less than five seconds.
    — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Tanjiro seeks to become a demon slayer in order to exact revenge for the murder of his family and find a cure for Nezuko.
    — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2021
  • However, Tanjiro returns home one day to find his family slaughtered by a demon, as well as his sister, Nezuko, captured and cursed by demons.
    — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Clearly, this was in reference to Finn Balor, a current member of the Judgement Day who used to wrestle with a demon persona.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Yet the change helps Sacred Fig establish Iman as the family’s personal demon, someone beyond saving.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • It was thought to keep demons away and bring good luck to lovers.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 June 2024
  • All the demons and all the joy will be coming out on this one.
    — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 16 July 2024
  • From there, each team faced its own demons, and some bowed out of the race.
    — Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • Going through them for the book was going through a lot of the demons again.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 July 2023
  • Faye, the game’s heroine, is the last in a long line of demon hunters.
    — Wired, 16 July 2022
  • The demon lies within, the movie says with a bloody, crooked smile.
    — A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • These headache demons are more than the marshmallow of the season.
    — Anna Liss-Roy, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • At the end of the film, Lorraine learns the demon's name and manages to banish it to hell.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There’s so much to do out in the world that has nothing to do with feeding those demons.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 July 2024
  • Barham is 40 and spent most of his 30s fighting demons of his own creation.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2024
  • For years, he had been plagued by nightmares of a green-eyed demon.
    — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • This day marks the death of the ruthless demon Narakasura, killed by Lord Krishna.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Why do demons, ghosts and killers put me at ease but sending a touchy email or text stops me in my tracks?
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Saving the world is a goal, but so is coming to terms with our inner demons.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The teen said their house was haunted and a demon was throwing bowls.
    — CBS News, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Zombies and demons and apparitions and creatures of the night.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023

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