How to Use demonic in a Sentence

demonic

adjective
  • The film tells the tale of a demonic wind-up toy with a thirst for blood.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
  • What do a lost cat, a demonic lamb, and a cute fox have in common?
    — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Yes, there’s a demonic agent of chaos with six limbs and a mouthful of huge teeth.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Yes, there’s a demonic agent of chaos with six limbs and a mouthful of huge teeth.
    — Vulture, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This film is demonic and deeply funny.
    — Benito Skinner, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Hikers to this day have claimed to hear demonic voices in the park.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
  • They are confronted by a demonic force that risks their faith and their lives.
    — Allison Argueta-Claros, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • One of the duties of the church is to pray and rebuke demonic spirits.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Flim-flam men and demonic detectives to the front.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • The movie follows a group of siblings who find themselves in a game with a demonic twist.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Gale next donned a demonic doll suit as Chucky in Child's Play.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 28 May 2025
  • Maze is walked down the aisle by Linda and looks smashing in a demonic black gown.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • For one, there was no demonic mirror involved.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But as demonic forces engulf their off-the-grid house, one of the twins questions whether evil exists.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
  • The demonic vent fan in my room that for no apparent reason came on at all hours, by itself.
    — Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The demonic doll of horror movie fame comes to TV for a new series.
    — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2021
  • What if the film had been a success, and Cosby had been typecast as demonic?
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Many believe that the demonic forces that have stolen the election can still be defeated through prayer.
    — Brad Christerson, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The guitar is demonic, thanks to being made from some cursed wood back in Mesopotamian times.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • This is appalling behavior, at best—demonic, at worst.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This is a first time that Maggie is seeing him in his human side being demonic and evil.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The devil invades a Georgetown home, and holy men have quite the job to do on a demonic little girl.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • The details in the Russian collusion hoax file is demonic—this is evil stuff.
    — FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Tuason didn’t just want to use that power for realism, but for demonic evil.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Part of her mission on Earth was to eliminate the darkness, the demonic — the evil.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The Avengers will have to fight Shuma Gorath and its evil army of demonic beings.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The house will transport guests to a busy Haiti street market, where a strange folk doll with three eyes helps open a demonic portal.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
  • Toward the end of the night, one of the women in the group appears to succumb to a demonic possession.
    — Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The members of my party have the gall to request several of these demonic items from the livid waiter.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
  • His persona is of Ghost’s demonic pope, preaching of war and plague like a doom prophet amid heavy guitar riffs and vivid pop melodies.
    — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022

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