Examples of hellish in a Sentence
We've been having hellish weather lately.
The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
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The deportation of Venezuelan men to a hellish mega-prison in El Salvador, on the questionable suspicion of gang affiliations, based on the presence of tattoos: flowers, a soccer logo, an autism-awareness ribbon.
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Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
None of this — the Netflix exposé painting her childhood as hellish and her adolescence as haunted by the specter of a controlling, manipulative mother; the rabid backlash to it and endless coverage of it — is pushing Piper off social media.
—Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2025
This theory dovetails neatly with several observations, including ones showing a roughly uniform distribution of Io’s volcanoes, which seem to be tapping the same omnipresent, hellish source of melt.
—Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
The gates are fiery magic portals that release hostile creatures called Daedra from the hellish plane of Oblivion upon Cyrodiil.
—Carlie Procell, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
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Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
None of this — the Netflix exposé painting her childhood as hellish and her adolescence as haunted by the specter of a controlling, manipulative mother; the rabid backlash to it and endless coverage of it — is pushing Piper off social media.
—Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2025
This theory dovetails neatly with several observations, including ones showing a roughly uniform distribution of Io’s volcanoes, which seem to be tapping the same omnipresent, hellish source of melt.
—Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
The gates are fiery magic portals that release hostile creatures called Daedra from the hellish plane of Oblivion upon Cyrodiil.
—Carlie Procell, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellish. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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