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Example sentences for "evil"

Lexicographically close words:
evidente; evidential; evidentially; evidentiary; evidently; evildoer; evildoers; evill; evilly; evils
  1. I join my feeble voice with theirs, Triumphant in its yell, For evil powers of earth I scorn, And all the pow'rs of hell.

  2. Then who shall say the tempest's work Brings more of pain than joy; Or that the evil things, to us Are pain, without alloy?

  3. To overcome evil with good is good, and to resist evil by evil is evil," says a Mohammedan manual of ethics.

  4. The same prophecies and miracles,--the dead restored and evil spirits cast out.

  5. C] This sympathy of religions extends even to the loftiest virtues,--the forgiveness of injuries, the love of enemies and the overcoming of evil with good.

  6. Speak not evil to a friend, nor even to an enemy," said Pittacus, one of the Seven Wise Men.

  7. And it held him, stilled and stricken, in its evil spell.

  8. Even in the hold its evil traces were found.

  9. From that day, Fritz, none but evil days have come upon Nideck, and better times seem to be far off.

  10. Providence or an evil destiny, I know not which, has made you witness of a mystery in which lies involved the honour of my family.

  11. Fritz, there are messengers of evil and there are messengers of good.

  12. You might have thought him, in the deep shadow, some gnome or evil spirit of earth realised out of the dreams of the Niebelungen Lieder.

  13. He is a fool and an amusing knave suited to the purposes of evil demons.

  14. The evil to be apprehended is, his resting there, and not correcting them afterwards from nature, or taking the trouble to look about him for whatever assistance the works of others will afford him.

  15. That regime is based entirely on the recognition by the Axis powers, it has no popular roots, and depends on the bayonets of robbers who do more evil in a day than the Serbian regime had done in twenty years.

  16. It is) stupid and unworthy of Christ's disciples to think that the struggle against evil could be waged in a noble way and with gloves on.

  17. But one thing remained, one canker and sore, one great evil which threatened and worried and troubled, but God in His own good time again let down the bars and it was forever swept away, for He allowed the rebellion.

  18. Yet they seem to cherish the evil and to view with immovable prejudice & dislike every thing which may tend to diminish it.

  19. Do you see any great evil in such a provision?

  20. So terrifying became the evil that the Legislature of New York, although one of the worst offenders in the granting of bank charters, was driven to appoint a committee of investigation.

  21. The Chief Justice goes into the history of the paper money evil that caused the framers of the Constitution to forbid the States to "emit bills of credit.

  22. It appears that he regretted the existence of slavery, feared the results of it, saw no way of getting rid of it, but hoped to lessen the evil by colonizing in Africa such free black people as were willing to go there.

  23. This Convention can do nothing that would entail a more serious evil upon Virginia, than to destroy the tenure by which her Judges hold their offices.

  24. The whole good which may grow out of this Convention, be it what it may, will never compensate for the evil of changing the tenure of the Judicial office.

  25. Our greatest real evil is the question between debtor and creditor, into which the banks have plunged us deeper than would have been possible without them," testifies Adams.

  26. Here was Reardon, the evil influence behind him, too soon upon the scene.

  27. It is, however, impossible not to feel greatly disquieted at the aspect of affairs--at the mixture of bad spirit and apathy that prevails, for I consider the apathy an evil and not a good sign.

  28. So there is another evil resulting from one of those imprudences which the Duke blurts out without reflection, thinking only of the present time and acting upon his impulse at the moment.

  29. He was the friend and devoted admirer of Pitt, and a regular Tory of the old school, who felt that evil days had come upon him in his old age.

  30. It will be a great evil if the Government is broken up just now, but it is quite clear that they cannot go on long; it is a question of months.

  31. The only real evil is that the rage for correction is too violent, and sweeps all before it.

  32. Though not illiberal in politics, he has fallen into the high Tory despondency about the prospects of the country, and anticipates every evil that the most timid alarmist can suggest.

  33. If there is anything I can do to ameliorate or decrease the evil effects of intemperance, I will willingly take my place in the ranks and add my strength to the fight.

  34. The shunning of the old home by friends and relatives; of the rapid decline of the master; evil associates whom he preferred to those who had honored and loved him; the estrangement of family and friends.

  35. But let it be recorded to the old town's credit, the evil was propagated without malice aforethought.

  36. Cousin Charley knew this full well but he knew also that he had the sympathy of the two women excited and he chose to work it to his evil nature's content.

  37. It is no crime to fail in any pursuit or vocation, if failure is not due to idleness or deliberate preference of evil to good.

  38. That he fell in with evil associates and did not have the will power to free himself from them is obvious.

  39. The boy had been so continually advised against evil associates that he began taking a mental inventory of every stranger at first meeting.

  40. The saloonkeeper may have it within his power to curtail, to lessen the evil effects of drunkenness, but it's high time the fellow on the other side of the bar came in for his share of the censure.

  41. This evil one of the chiefs undertook to remove, and with fury in his eyes made a shew of keeping the people at a proper distance.

  42. The almost continual rains may be reckoned another evil attending this bay; though perhaps this may only happen at this season of the year.

  43. Much self-denial, as well as much liberal observation, is required, to overcome such evil surmisings, and to induce a candid construction of the conduct that thwarts our own sanguine prospects.

  44. You are just full of envy, and all uncharitableness, and evil speaking, Janet Binnie.

  45. Her place was changed, lest evil should mar her understanding or falsehood beguile her soul.

  46. She heard all kinds of evil reports concerning the relations between her and her husband, and twice during the winter there was a rumour, hardly hushed up, of a separation between them.

  47. I will not be one to ask after evil for you.

  48. Now is the time in all your lives probably when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

  49. I trust and believe that such scenes are not possible now at school, and that lotteries and betting-books have gone out; but I am writing of schools as they were in our time, and must give the evil with the good.

  50. Do Thou give me grace, that I may not lust after another spouse or woman, or look upon her with an evil eye to desire her.

  51. But you must not only regard the gross external sins, but also the internal secret sins, departures from God's commandments, which have taken place in the heart through evil thoughts and desires.

  52. Gracious God and Father, I acknowledge and confess unto Thee that I have done evil all the days of my life and have not lived to Thy honor.

  53. In thy loving heart Is my help and hope alone, For the evil I have done.

  54. Do Thou preserve me from evil society and frivolous people, and when sinners entice me, that I may not consent nor walk in their way with them, but that I may refrain my foot from their path and not bring disgrace and crime upon myself.

  55. Guard us also against an evil and sudden death, and mercifully grant that many sinners may by Thy word, thunder and lightning, be roused out of their wicked walk and life, and be truly and heartily converted to Thee.

  56. Lord, almighty God and heavenly Father, I most heartily thank Thee for all Thy goodness and benefits which Thou hast this day so kindly shown unto me, in that Thou hast defended me from evil and preserved my health.

  57. Keep me this day from sin and all evil, from the wiles of the devil, from the temptations of the world and from the evil lusts of my own sinful flesh.

  58. There was the tolling of mournful bells in the distant air to his disturbed fancy, and the cry of the happy birds, the plaintive bleating of the new-dropped lambs, were all omens of evil import to him.

  59. Hester attributed more virtue to these sweet words and deeds of gratitude than they deserved; they did not imply in Sylvia any victory over evil temptation, as they would have done in Hester.

  60. You wished me not to go, because of an evil thing, a daughter of the Didi, that lived there; but I feared nothing and went.

  61. Rima was not there to pluck the rage from my heart and save his evil life.

  62. But now I find myself constrained to do this evil thing that good may come.

  63. And you are not satisfied, but must finish your evil work by inflicting blows on my worn body!

  64. That was the great work I was asked to do for them--that shy, mysterious girl with the melodious wild-bird voice was the evil being I was asked to slay with poisoned arrows!

  65. Next morning he asked me if I was going to the forest of evil fame, and when I replied in the negative, seemed surprised and, very much to my surprise, evidently disappointed.

  66. And the plant grows slowly, sir--it is not an evil weed to come to maturity in a single day.

  67. Every evil is done and there is no remedy, and the Christian has no more consideration shown him than the infidel.

  68. You know what he believes; and he is old and looks with fear at death, remembering his evil deeds, and is convinced that only through your intercession and your mother's he can escape from perdition.

  69. There is evil in this stranger, more than your pure mind can conceive.

  70. So soon, therefore, as they had relieved, according to their power, the poverty that seemed to be the least evil of this cottage, they emerged into the open air.

  71. There is a pass, when evil deeds can add nothing to guilt, nor good ones take anything from it.

  72. Your good resolutions were always like cobwebs, and your evil habits like five-inch cables," replied the traveller.

  73. But if there be an Ear that hears, and an Eye that sees all the evil of the earth, yet the Arm is slow to avenge.

  74. The history of this evil and unfortunate man must be comprised within very narrow limits.

  75. He has in mind here, of course, the conservative slaveholders of the border States who had for a number of years felt that slavery was an economic evil of which the country should rid itself gradually by systematic efforts.

  76. Since the committee had admitted the evil of slavery, he contended, the failure to find a remedy is unworthy of the representatives of the people of the State.

  77. Thus it is, "the evil that men do lives after them.

  78. The conferences could not be conducted so secretly, but that some report of them got air among the populace of the city, who now regarded Abdallah with an evil eye for his connection with the Christians.

  79. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  80. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

  81. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

  82. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

  83. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

  84. This was the locality of Tom All-Alone’s, that wretched rookery of evil repute in the days of Poor Joe, as described in chapter 16 of “Bleak House.

  85. Evil influences were around him just then: a sneering scoffer sought persistently to dissuade him from his new-formed purpose; but God was with him, and he witnessed faithfully for Christ.

  86. A pear-tree with a fresh stem is in your palace gardens, I would not that your mother should give my pear-tree To twine with an evil spice-tree or fool banana.

  87. My skin would cook and be renewed for ever Where murderers were burning and renewing; And evil souls, my only crime being love, Would burn me and annoy me and destroy me.


  88. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberrant; abnormal; abominable; abomination; ado; affliction; amiss; annoyance; anxiety; apocalyptic; arrant; atrocious; atrocity; backsliding; bad; baleful; bane; baneful; base; black; blameworthy; blasphemous; blight; bother; breach; bugbear; burden; calamity; carnality; catty; corrupt; corruption; crime; criminal; curse; damage; damaging; damnable; dark; delinquency; delinquent; dereliction; despiteful; destruction; detriment; detrimental; devilish; devilry; diabolic; dire; disadvantage; disease; disgrace; disgraceful; dishonorable; drawback; dreadful; dreary; enormity; error; evil; execrable; failure; fateful; fault; felony; fiendish; flagrant; foreboding; foul; genocide; gloomy; godless; grievance; grim; harm; harmful; hate; hateful; havoc; headache; heinous; hurt; ignominious; ill; illegal; immoral; immorality; improper; impropriety; impure; impurity; inappropriate; inauspicious; inconvenience; incorrect; indecorous; indiscretion; inexpedient; infamous; infamy; infection; inferior; infernal; infliction; iniquitous; iniquity; injurious; injury; injustice; invalid; knavery; knavish; lapse; low; lowering; malevolent; malfeasance; malicious; malign; malignant; matter; menacing; mischief; mischievous; mischievousness; miscreant; misdeed; misdemeanor; monstrous; nasty; naughty; nefarious; obscene; offense; offensive; ominous; omission; outrage; outrageous; peccant; perverted; pest; pestilence; plague; poison; poisonous; pollution; portentous; prejudicial; problem; prodigality; profligacy; profligate; rancorous; rank; recidivism; reprehensible; reprobate; rotten; sacrilegious; scandal; scandalous; scourge; serpentine; shame; shameful; shameless; sin; sinful; sinister; slip; somber; spiteful; terrible; thorn; threatening; torment; tort; toxin; transgression; trespass; trip; trouble; ugly; unchastity; unconscionable; undue; unfavorable; unfit; unforgivable; unfortunate; ungodliness; ungodly; unlawful; unlucky; unpardonable; unpromising; unpropitious; unrighteous; unscrupulous; unseemly; unskillful; unspeakable; unsuitable; untoward; unworthy; venom; vexation; vice; vicious; vile; villainous; villainy; visitation; wicked; woe; worry; wrong; wrongdoing; wrongful


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    evil angels; evil case; evil conscience; evil days; evil deed; evil deeds; evil dream; evil effects; evil example; evil genius; evil heart; evil hour; evil omen; evil spirit; evil spirits; evil spoken; evil thing; evil things; evil will