evil spirit
Example Sentences
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“We are asking you to give us a clean heart. Because no cartel, no demon, no evil spirit, no hellmaker, no one… We won’t seek retribution,” Minister Dearest Price said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2023
"The evil spirit of Handel's enchantress Alcina evidently infected one audience member at Tuesday's premiere of this new production," he wrote.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022
But she confronts the evil spirit — literally, in her mind — and attempts to defeat it, only to be swallowed whole.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022
Eury has moved to the Bronx from Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria; she feels the presence of an evil spirit that has accompanied her.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2021
She was surrounded by the forces of night, heard but not seen: the gibbering of coyotes and the howling of wolves and the screaming of owls, which were said to carry an evil spirit.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
