SINISTER in a Sentence
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76 example sentences for SINISTER, such as:
1. The moon was sinister over this plain.
2. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
3. There was something sinister about Mr Scott's death.
4. The ideal of oppression was realized by this sinister household.
5. He actually saw that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him.
2. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
3. There was something sinister about Mr Scott's death.
4. The ideal of oppression was realized by this sinister household.
5. He actually saw that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SINISTER
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sinister
a. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
a. on or starting from the wearer's left
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1 The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2 He actually saw that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him.
3 That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
4 The moon was sinister over this plain.
5 The ideal of oppression was realized by this sinister household.
6 This penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a child.
7 This light formed a sort of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD...
8 Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.
9 One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round its neck.
10 The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
11 All this would have caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
12 The march of the damned to their tortures, performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet cart.
13 That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul.
14 In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on they are sinister.
15 The difference between these two redoubts was the difference between the formidable and the sinister.
Example Sentence:
1 We needn't assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did.
2 There was something sinister about Mr Scott's death.
3 In sudden panic, she's convinced someone sinister is trying to push her from the train.