Sentence examples for became sinister from inspiring English sources

I forgot my debt to her for this until the night after she died, when I was alone in the house and suddenly every sound once more became sinister — the escaped lunatic slowly turning the doorknob, the big brute creeping up the stairs.

Writing verse meant perpetually discovering new and intricate fascinations, though nature often became sinister (a ladybird "slides like a blood-drop down a spear of grass") and left no consolation for losses such as the death of her son by drowning: There was singing in the sap that ended in his green death playing by the river.

Occasionally, they become sinister.

Overnight, the ordinary had become sinister.

At what point does a story cease simply to be absurd and begin to become sinister?

A holiday that had already begun to turn gloomy now becomes sinister.

When the play darkens, these doors become sinister black gaps leading to unknown, dark interiors.

Once a computer ascribes suspiciousness to someone, everything else in that person's life becomes sinister and inexplicable.

"Now the campaign to destroy Pell has become sinister as well, after it was joined by – in my view – elements of Victoria Police".

The Midlands estate his imagination haunts is set on the edge of countryside, so wooded lanes and dense foliage skirt its borders – but they become sinister and darkly humanised in his depictions.

What was old and fine has become sinister and distorted and changed; what is new is cheap and vulgar and shoddy – "I think we are in rats' alley/where the dead men lost their bones".