Sentence examples for sinister figure from inspiring English sources

The businessman emerged, centerscreen, as a sinister figure.

Lish's baker is a sinister figure, symbolic of death's inevitability.

Why did the United States give so much support to such a sinister figure?

That raven-haired, sinister figure, as millions now know, turned out to be "unutterably honorable," to use Mr. Rickman's words.

She described talking with Vanessa in the drawing room, when "the long and sinister figure of Lytton Strachey" appeared.

And the woman in the yellow dress: was she his lover or a more sinister figure from his grandfather's past?

In the back seat were barious sinister figures labelled Communism, C.I.O., and Socialists.

Not much tweaking to turn these boffins into furtive and sinister figures.

There was an effective visual elaboration of Gilda's central aria, "Caro nome," with sinister figures hovering in the background.

Sometimes, it seems, the more you pay players, the more they fall prey to the sinister figures who bribe them.

At a mathematical conference, the appearance of sinister figures drives the panicky Nash from the lecture stage and precipitates a wild chase across campus.