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

Lyra lives in a universe parallel to our own, where people have a daemon - a companion spirit in animal form.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025

Lyra is no longer a child but a troubled young adult who finds herself estranged from her daemon Pantalaimon — effectively at war with herself.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019

I am often asked, by children I meet at school visits or book festivals, what would be my daemon?

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2019

“No. His daemon was at the time coiled around his neck in the form of a snake. That shape you can dimly see is a child.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman