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How to use imp in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word imp? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The director steered clear of portraying him as a cheeky imp and wisely made him a nameless creep.
This girl is something of a mischievous imp who flat-out refuses to toe the line!
In fact the imp has just made the excellent point that Jesus himself was very fond of a drink.
It isn't just the imp of the perverse that suggests that a total wipeout for Microsoft is avertable.
To her religious enemies, she was an imp of the Devil, if not probably the Devil himself incarnate.
When passing cards and choosing a card for the bottle imp trick, I strongly prefer to give myself a red or blue void if possible.
One popular story is about El Duende, an imp with a big sombrero, red trousers and a blue jacket, who courts pretty young girls by tossing pebbles at them.
He had short hair, and looked like an imp with a hooked nose.
One of the most popular characters in English folklore of the last thousand years has been the faerie, goblin, devil or imp known by the name of Puck or Robin Goodfellow.
He was the thorn in everyone's side, the gleeful imp who was just there to cause trouble.
Or so, however much the mischievous internal imp might crave a Trump vs Hillary showdown, you would hope.
What imp act would that have on people and animals? What would we do for food if we couldn t go to supermarket s and butchers and buy meat?
As any mycologist should know, there's an imp specie for each specie of mushroom.
The other, dwarfed and prehensile, might in its uncanny silhouette have been an imp of darkness from the nether regions.
Warm ambient air, loiterings abroad, gardenings, flowers to take about, and preserves to make, soothed the wicked imp to slumber in the parish of Hollingford in summer-time.
Examples from Classical Literature
Well, Sir, that imp there winds her round her finger like a piece of packthread.
I advised her to leave it, and begin, for the imp was patiently waiting her turn.
Cars, costumes, banners and decorations were all designed by this imp of ten.
Where had he been a year ago, this imp who had fervently crossed himself?
An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants.
Some imp of deviltry in me moved me to change my seat for one beside his.
His reason prompted him to listen, but the Imp of the perverse laughed reason to scorn.
The Imp was narrow and rakish, with a low cockpit and a high bow and stern.
The Imp of the perverse must have chuckled at the situation.
He explained that it would have cost about PS14,000 in all to fix the Imp.
The making of the Hillman Imp panel, in particular, brought stitchers and enthusiasts together, as well as the Phoenix Car Company, who have carefully restored an Imp.
It beat other much-hated UK models such as the Morris Ital and Rover 200, not fogetting Scottish contender the Hillman Imp, built at Linwood, Renfrewshire.
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