Sentence examples for devil of an from inspiring English sources

The Devil of an Egg appetiser (devilled eggs topped with bacon jam and mustard-seed caviar) and the Crab Corn Dogs with Mississippi comeback sauce (a particularly tasty blend of ketchup, mustard and mayo) are just a couple of the playful offerings on the menu.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

During the nineteen-thirties, when the fabrication of counterfeit Picassos was at its height — his works being the must often falsified because he rated the highest prices — an old journalist friend took a small Picasso belonging to some poor devil of an artist to Picasso for authentication, so the impoverished artist could sell it.

They expect to have a devil of a time.

Say: "I'm having a devil of a time finding my heirloom jewelry.

Fallopia baldschuanica, aka Russian vine, aka mile-a-minute, is a devil of a climber.

Poor kid is going to have a devil of a time in the playground.

James Anderson bowls the Australian a devil of a delivery first up that beats the outside edge.

Pass me that lump hammer while I hold down this devil of a cobalt blue.

But the Scotsman had a devil of a job, needing four grimly contested sets over four hours.

She argues that women of her generation made a "devil of a bargain" when they traded homemaking for careers.