hell-bent
adjective
: stubbornly and often recklessly determined or intent
hell-bent on winning
hell-bent
adverb
Examples of hell-bent in a Sentence
she's hell-bent on a career in show business and heaven help anyone who gets in her way
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Instead, Trump made sure that incentives for these renewable technologies were wound down in the ultra-MAGA budget bill that the subservient Congress recently sent to him and is hell-bent on clearing the path for oil and gas and coal to dominate.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
The men so hell-bent on revenge against Tea’s users are illustrating that hatred of women is alive and well.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 30 July 2025
Mystique kidnaps a senator Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison) is the main political antagonist in X-Men, hell-bent on passing that draconian mutant registration bill.
—ArsTechnica, 20 July 2025
Why? Why are Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis so hell-bent to purge the nation of workers upon whom much of the economy depends?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
The men so hell-bent on revenge against Tea’s users are illustrating that hatred of women is alive and well.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 30 July 2025
Mystique kidnaps a senator Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison) is the main political antagonist in X-Men, hell-bent on passing that draconian mutant registration bill.
—ArsTechnica, 20 July 2025
Why? Why are Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis so hell-bent to purge the nation of workers upon whom much of the economy depends?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for hell-bent
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“Hell-bent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hell-bent. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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