daemon

Example Sentences

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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

And in this 16-year-old story, he prefigured the painful estrangement between his heroine and her daemon that he had no inkling would feature in a future novel about Lyra’s adulthood.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2020

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

Well, my son responded to the sights, sounds, smells, lights, queues and endless wooden-arts-and-crafts stalls as if he were my daemon.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

His face contentedly deep in fee pie, his toes curled inward and his bare soles together, he sits and chews and swallows while his daemon becomes a mouse and grooms her whiskers.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman