Sentence examples for malign creature from inspiring English sources
She imagines the presence of some malign creature stalking her flock, and the thought knocks her backwards and forwards in time, from the roots of her distress to her present and growing madness.
In the Shetland and Orkney islands, Celtic areas once settled by Scandinavians, trolls are called trows and appear as small malign creatures who dwell in mounds or near the sea.
Unlike some animal rights groups, which favor humane methods of reducing the pigeon population, these activists are opposed to any governmental intervention into the lives of what they say are unjustly maligned creatures.
These are not pretty little things you stick on Christmas trees; they're malign, dark creatures that in Victorian times were perhaps very real to people.
But defenders of the mute swan see a majestic creature, falsely maligned by flawed data and targeted by illegal permits.
The first line mentions Knock-na-rea, an eerie flat-topped mountain overlooking the coastal lands of County Sligo from which one could well imagine a tribe of supernatural creatures spilling with malign intent.
Yet the impact of this creature was not simply malign.
(Take Isabel's chemo drugs: Vincristine, Methotrexate, Etoposide, Cyclophospamide, and Cisplatin — creatures of a particularly malign demonology).
The malign effect of floating plastic debris on seabirds, turtles and other sea creatures is well known.
Inspired by boyhood games of Snakes and Ladders, it challenges their malign reputation – something that did not chime with the artist's own experiences with the creatures.
Malign astrological influences?
