Beelzebub

Example Sentences

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With the goalie nowhere to be found, Beelzebub had a wide open cage that even the bendiest bender could have scored on.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 26, 2020

That the narrator is a figure who has been likened in some quarters to Beelzebub makes the story more interesting, or at least curious.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2018

McGehee, who is reportedly “super eager to put pen to paper,” told Deadline that the novel “has a lot of meaning embedded in it,” which should thrill Beelzebub.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2017

The show is a kind of trashy “Pilgrim’s Progress,” with Charity meeting her version of Beelzebub, Evangelist, and so on, as she tries not to give up on the possibility of a relationship.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 27, 2016

He soon realizes that, lying next to him similarly battered, is his lieutenant, Beelzebub.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith