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
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
In Landless Theatre Company’s “prog-metal” version, Andrew Lloyd Baughman sings with the gravelly voice of Beelzebub while electric guitars chime in the background.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2015
He soon realizes that, lying next to him similarly battered, is his lieutenant, Beelzebub.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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