Sentence examples for what the devil is from inspiring English sources

What the devil is going on?

"What the devil is Shredder doing?" Meyer-Kahlen exclaimed.

The Earl: What the devil is going on, Carson?

"What the devil is this?" he says aloud.

We just have different notions of who and what the devil is.

He's at the Burberry show (hence the trench look, a masterclass in smart-casual), which raises the question, what the devil is in the bag?

What the devil's going on here?

"Why did Shakespeare... "What the devil are you babbling about?" he howled.

Father turned squarely around and asked what the devil was that noise.

So what the devil are they up to in Casa Lippi?

In a French comedy of, I think, the 16th century, there was a judge with a one-track mind, who kept asking the same question: "Que diable allait-il faire en cette galere?" ("What the devil was he doing in that ship anyway?").