How to Use satanism in a Sentence

satanism

noun
  • Dana sprinkles in remarks about her past — her dabbling in satanism, for instance — that complicate our trust.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 3 June 2019
  • An upside-down star inside a circle is widely believed to represent evil or satanism.
    — Ken Brown, Cincinnati.com, 2 May 2018
  • Melzer is not the first American soldier charged with plotting crimes inspired by satanism.
    — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
  • Popular culture and social media have also ferried ideas about satanism and widespread child abuse from fringe to the mainstream.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • At first Day plays up the satanism angle and his interviews with several of the detectives who were on the case nudge the viewer in that direction.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • In the early days of the investigation, clues were sparse, rumors were rampant and fear of satanism spread through the community of around 400.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Some community members accused Randy’s peers of practicing satanism.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Hardin and Clark, who were exonerated in 2017 of a murder Handy falsely linked to satanism, also have filed lawsuits against the city.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Black metal is similar to but different than death metal, which has a different sound and is thematically more explicitly about murder and gore, though both could feature satanism.
    — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2017
  • Some of the messages — which were exchanged through platforms including Skype, Zoom and Teleguard — included references to drug use, satanism and child torture.
    — Muri Assuncao, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Some consumers mistook the collaboration as Nike’s endorsement of satanism, the Monday lawsuit said, and boycotted the company as a result.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Trump on Wednesday praised a conspiracy-theory group that believes the president's political opponents support satanism and pedophilia.
    — Steve Peoples, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The owner of a mortuary services company tied to a funeral home where a body disappeared in 2015 defended one of his employees Wednesday when allegations of satanism emerged in a civil trial.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Black metal is a type of heavy metal music, interested in rejecting Christianity by focusing on satanism, pagan gods and Norse mythology, that came out of Scandinavia in the late 1980s.
    — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2017
  • In 1865, the Vatican News said, university professor Vincenzo Pepe persuaded Longo to ditch satanism.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion (referred to as EDI by the ALA) titles are also targeted, along with books depicting suicide, drugs, satanism, witchcraft, and profanity.
    — Spin Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
  • Some Epstein platform operators are supplementing their thinking with ideas from QAnon and other online conspiracy movements about cannibalism, satanism or the CIA’s experiments with mind control in the 1950s known as MK Ultra.
    — Matthew N. Hannah, The Conversation, 8 May 2026

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