Sentence examples for devilish device from inspiring English sources

A jammer is a devilish device that creates a cellphone reception dead zone by blocking certain radio frequencies.

His body was placed on an American-made "bouncing mine," a devilish device designed to explode a few feet off the ground and blow up everything in the vicinity.

It was a devilish device for turning recessions into depressions.

The people around him fumbled; "Who know'st this devilish device?" demanded Richard III.

Forever above the fray and beside the point, Mr. Depp's devilish buccaneer is the lightfooted device that holds the franchise together; as he sashays from battle to bar, impervious to insult and musket alike, Jack's very narcissism is his protection.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he said jihadi extremists were deploying "devilish technical skill" to create ever more sophisticated devices to evade existing security measures.

Note the 'severe', which summons up images of the rack, thumbscrews, gouges, branding irons, burning pits, impaling devices, electric shock and all the other devilish tools devised by human beings to mutilate and inflict pain on others.

It's this devilish weather.

Redline — what a devilish name.

And devilish machinations come to nought.

It is devilish.