evil one

Example Sentences

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He asked that “the Lord may give them strength and wisdom to repulse the attacks of the evil one while serving their people in faith and truth promoting peace by all possible ways.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2022

But in this time of chaos and casual evil, one can’t be blamed for taking refuge with the Crawleys.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2019

Is the final fight scene a metaphor, telling us that the real enemy is always within, and that, to vanquish evil, one must first vanquish oneself?

From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019

They are said to have been fundamentalists who believed there were two gods: A good one who presided over the spiritual world, and an evil one who ruled the physical world.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2018

Or, at least, an evil one who looked like her real mom.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix