Sentence examples for fiend in from inspiring English sources

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The fiend in question is not insidious bacteria, or even Steven Seagal.

Rosalba is an absolute fiend in the kitchen, and her eight-course lunch is a feat worth undertaking.

Close-up, he appears leaner, fox-like, with an intense, unmellowed quality that has led him to colonise the role of the "charismatic fiend" in Hollywood.

He got divorced, married for the fifth time, appeared in Glen or Glenda – the cult film about, coincidentally, transvestism – and died, a drug fiend, in 1956.

Sam Farber, who was spurred by a fiend in the form of a vegetable peeler to start Oxo, the housewares manufacturer whose ergonomic rubber handles grace its kitchen utensils in many homes, died on Sunday in East Meadow, N.Y.

Mr Knausgaard smokes like a fiend in his garden study (though not in his impeccably tidy house) and keeps an electric guitar and a drum kit next to his desk.

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One critic called its characters "three small fiends in human likeness".

But there aren't any fiends in Mr. Cuesta's sunny, perilous suburbs, just alarmingly fallible human beings.

He complained about black columnists who "flay black pimps and whores as criminals, while fiends in blue blood let in the black ghetto unseen and uncondemned".

On the other hand, in 1994 Illinois had also executed John Wayne Gacy, one of the most notorious fiends in the annals of 20th-century crime.

Jo Nesbø Pop musician and economist, Jo Nesbø joined the ranks of widely-exported Norwegian crime authors when his maverick detective, Harry Hole, began to uncover fiends in high places in novels such as 'Redbreast', 'Nemesis' and 'The Redeemer'.

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