How to Use imp in a Sentence

imp

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  • The pointy-eared imp has even pulled off plenty of their own pranks on the dogs too.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • The story being told is of the creation of the iconic imp Peter Pan.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • In a sense, Keough gets to play the film’s presiding artist, an imp of the perverse who sets things in motion just to see what might happen.
    — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 29 June 2021
  • In South African mythology, the tokoloshe is a malicious imp that preys on its victims at night.
    — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The stories about its little, red-haired imp and his pranks still retain cult status today.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Shakespeare set the play in Athens, where young lovers and bad actors find themselves in an enchanted forest where they are pranked by gods and imps.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 22 July 2019
  • It’s #Oscars week but imp awards are already being given to legends.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Maxwell's hypothetical imp would perch atop the dividing wall and open and close the shutter at will.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
  • His ghost, riding a gray horse that spews fire from its nostrils, is sometimes accompanied by three glowing imps.
    — David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Oct. 2019
  • At 10 months, Mabel is a delicious imp, with the fair coloring of her mother and the gleeful expression of a hellion in training.
    — Judith Newman, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • In addition to elves and dwarves and imps there are also trolls and munchkins and leprechauns and a million other short-statured mystical characters.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
  • The imp accomplished this by making heat flow from a cold compartment to a hot one in apparent violation of the second law.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Presiding above it all is Pesce himself, an imp in Issey Miyake, delighting in his creations, wonky and Wonka.
    — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
  • These carnivorous marsupials give birth to dozens of tiny, hairless imps—up to 50 at time—but only offer four teats in their pouches.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • These scampering imps are a distracting intrusion that shifts one’s attention away from the singers at crucial moments in the drama.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Your most basic attacker and defender, a creature spell can be anything from a demonic imp to the most pious angel.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
  • But Rumpelstiltskin, the magical imp who spun straw into gold, would be impressed with the latest chemical wizardry.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The Dada imp’s word games and visual pranks were busily bumping off Picasso as the primary influence on the ’60s American avant-garde.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • A giant metal statue guarding a sandstone temple may pick your characters up and slam them into the ground for instance, while a group of imps will teleport around a room and prevent your party from getting a bead on them.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 June 2017
  • The article also mentioned a legend that, after Master’s death in 1796, a workman saw him shackled and riding on horseback, begging for mercy, with three imps following him.
    — Akira Kyles, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Nov. 2019
  • This potent symbol of Black life – of self-preservation, resistance + authenticity has an imp.
    — Asia Milia Ware, Teen Vogue, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Of course, there is only the faintest connection between nursery tales and Chinese factories churning out Christmas decorations: no elves with pointed ears nor mischievous imps assisting Santa Claus.
    — François Lévêque, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Hell on Earth is imminent, and Coy Blackler’s only real ally is Harper, a fellow test pilot/guinea pig whose symbiotic relationship with a cherubim-ish imp also is highly unstable.
    — al, 23 July 2021
  • Encountering complacency that unrepentant was always a peculiar thrill, guaranteed to tickle my inner imp of the perverse.
    — Tom Carson, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Are Descartes’ almost perfect illusionist, Laplace’s nearly omniscient intelligence and Maxwell’s entropy-resistant imp really as tangible as a microchip or a shock wave?
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The pointy-eared imp has even pulled off plenty of their own pranks on the dogs too.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The four imps that are quickest to crawl the three inches from the birth canal to the pouch survive.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • Expect plenty of imps, ogres, and trolls and the series rolls on.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 23 May 2018

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