fiend
Example Sentences
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He’s a workout fiend, just like his father, Bill, was before him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025
It telegraphs that Abigail is no barbaric horror fiend but instead a sophisticated aesthete, which makes her both scarier and funnier.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
In the play, King Henry laments the cardinal - his great uncle's - death, saying: 'O! beat away the busy, meddling fiend that lays siege unto this wretch's soul'.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2023
"One of us, 'is lordship said. Which one? That's what I want to know. Who's the fiend in 'uman form?"
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
Vocabulary lists containing fiend
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act V
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Beowulf: A New Telling
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