How to Use Satan in a Sentence

Satan

noun
  • And now, a few words about Satan.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Bridges was set to play the voice of God, with Depp cast as Satan.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 2025-07-08
  • Now the voice is all her own, like Satan’s words made Lowell’s.
    — Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, 2025-01-16
  • What’s more, the Elect see the works of Satan everywhere.
    — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2023-06-02
  • In the clip, Lil Nas X slides down a pole to hell and gives Satan a lap dance.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • For two wins back to back against Satan who was attempting to attack my family.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 2025-05-01
  • The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps will come and parade before us.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2023-04-11
  • No one’s head takes a 360-degree turn and Satan is never invoked.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 2023-10-26
  • Johnny Depp may be adding Satan to his résumé of surprising roles.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 2023-12-04
  • No doubt Milton risked building support for Satan among his readers.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 2024-12-16
  • On that sandy beach a decade ago, those men may have witnessed God’s holy army and the forces of Satan in their ancient battle.
    — Lauren Green, Fox News, 2025-02-16
  • The heroes face challenges including Satan, a headless corpse, and more.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 2023-08-01
  • Gregory Peck plays a diplomat who secretly adopts a baby who turns out to be the son of Satan.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2025-06-21
  • Hell’s carnival barker leads visitors through a freak show with fire breathers, a knife thrower and the spawn of Satan himself.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2024-10-18
  • Jodi Hildebrandt convinced Ruby and Kevin that Satan was out to get her.
    — Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 2025-03-04
  • The 808s feel like drowning in a volcano, my skin peeling off as the visage of Satan reveals itself.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2025-06-04
  • In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Satan is described with bat wings that freeze hell over with a simple flap of the wings.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 2023-10-31
  • But please also bring back Peter Stormare, his Satan was my favorite Satan so far.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 2025-02-19
  • And baritone Héctor Vásquez amuses as Aba, the town elder who plays Satan in the pastorela.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-12-03
  • The show continues to run with its gag of depicting Trump with comically small genitals and as Satan’s lover.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And the state of Tennessee seems particularly in the hold of Satan thanks to the bright red devil here captured in its full-color glory.
    — Susanna Ashton, JSTOR Daily, 2024-05-23
  • When the group formed, in Linköping, in 2006, its members were anonymous, and their devotion to Satan was deep and jubilant.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Consider, the song’s entire music video and album artwork are both nearly pitch black, and wicked is the Bible’s most common descriptor of Satan.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 2023-06-05
  • Ibrahim was ready to do so, in faithfulness to Allah, even fighting off Iblis (Satan) when Iblis tried to convince him not to obey.
    — USA TODAY, 2023-06-25
  • The Bible and Apocrypha are full of stories of those tempted by Satan’s natural world to leave behind Christendom.
    — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-09-08
  • At least one sign was vandalized with a crude drawing of Satan, implying that anyone who would question the height of a spire on a Latter-day Saint temple must be in league with the devil.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2023-08-08
  • In a new trailer for Season 27 Episode 2, the show’s version of Trump is seen groping Satan’s leg under a table during a public dinner event.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 2025-07-29
  • South Park's season 27 premiere drew a response from the White House after the series depicted Trump attempting to seduce Satan.
    — EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Anwar’s 2017 horror hit Satan’s Slaves became the highest-grossing Indonesian film of the year and was distributed in over 40 territories.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The teaser once again depicts the president with reluctant lover Satan, but this time also involves ICE as well as a woman who appears to be Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019

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