Sentence examples for sinister items from inspiring English sources

This clandestine trade may not be enough to raise the living standards of ordinary Iraqis, but it certainly puts soap and tyres within Mr Hussein's reach, not to mention more luxurious or sinister items.Indeed, while his country is in desperate straits, Mr Hussein shows no eagerness to spend on his own people the money he gets from illicit oil exports.

More-sinister items include "Antidote," a cane that shoots blow darts, by Frederick McSwain; a coat hanger with a built-in blade, by Grain; and Kai Williams's and Chen Chen's "Hot Stick," which plugs into an outlet and heats up to 600 degrees (the show's organizers are keeping it as far away from working outlets as possible).

Director Roeg, his writers Scott and Bryant and, perhaps most importantly, his costume designer, Marit Allen – who went on to work on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain – created a shape-shifting garment in that sinister red item.

The latest product of an unholy synergy between Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and toy makers Hasbro is a rudimentary horror in which bland everyteens are slain while communing with their late friend via the sinister Ouija (an item currently mass-produced by Hasbro Inc).

Williamsburg, Brooklyn Through March 18 Parker's Box resembles a high-end elecronics store these days, with a small stock of select merchandise displayed on shelves: gunmetal-gray laptops, cameras and camcorders along with items of more ambiguous and possibly sinister use.

I like how its rolling rhythm echoes the rolling of the sinister "they," as well as its confident, three-item list of everything that's beautiful.

He had had no clear idea of what he wanted, but the finished item "seemed very familiar".The Daleks mutant monsters in sinister shells trundled into the clapped-out studio reserved for children's programmes.

Sinister menace?

But sinister?

"Sinister," he said.

Such items contain many electronic parts; showing that they work normally is the only way to still fears that they are something more sinister in disguise.