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
Ryker was a hockey fiend at about a year old, watching 6 a.m.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
At the time, one critic from The Times of London suggested that “some fiend had been laying siege to Sir Joshua’s taste.”
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2023
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
But he could not see how one man, however good and strong, dared face the fiend without weapons.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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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