Example Sentences

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But despite soundtracking 128 episodes worth of hormonal melodrama, Cole’s song most immediately evokes one image: the devilishly handsome, All-American countenance of the show’s star, James Van Der Beek.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

The pivotal U.S. jobs report for December is supposed to be the first normal one since the government shutdown, but it could prove devilishly hard for investors to parse.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

In the first three innings, the highest total was 172 and batting looked devilishly difficult.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Fleetwood took control with four birdies from the seventh at the devilishly tight Delhi Golf Club, but it was a crucial par putt at the 11th that kept his round going.

From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025

I was not even my parents’ son in 1928 but a devilishly smooth impostor, awaiting their slightest blunder as an excuse to move in—preferably without violence, but not necessarily—to assert my true identity.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger