daemon
Example Sentences
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“I’d love to have a daemon that can blow dry my hair for me,” she said.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
At the same event, actor Scott said he and Waller-Bridge were together once more, with the UK actress voicing the Irishman's daemon.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2020
I am often asked, by children I meet at school visits or book festivals, what would be my daemon?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2019
There was a silence, in which they all three became aware of the witch’s daemon and his fixed stare at Lyra.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
