fiend

Example Sentences

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Matthieu Jalibert, a broken-field fiend, accepted the invite to run back and England were back under the pump.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

“The fiend has no head,” Knight commented in his review.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

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

The narrative rewinds by years, days, hours and occasionally seconds, portraying the Captain's memory as a fickle fiend that equally protects him and exposes his fraud.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2024

Each fiend had big, red, unblinking eyes and a wide red mouth without lips, from which protruded massive, shiny, razor-sharp teeth.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane