Example Sentences

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He needs to dispel concerns about his age and mental alacrity and avoid the kind of verbal stumbles that have bedevilled him in the past.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2020

It’s not just the emergence of health-conscious consumers and new distribution channels that have bedevilled Big Soda.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2014

But Bairstow, alongside his prolific county colleague and new captain, Joe Root, had time to flourish in between the scudding showers that have bedevilled this fixture.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2013

And what of the nerves that have bedevilled him here in the past?

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2012

All! that wallet bedevilled Mr. Latour Cleveland, as it seems to have bedevilled you.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore