Examples of hellhole in a Sentence
The factory is a hellhole.
his first apartment was a hellhole in an unsafe neighborhood
Recent Examples on the Web
As my Times colleague Julia Wick reported this week, conservatives — long convinced that the city by the Bay is a progressive hellhole of homelessness, unchecked crime and drug addiction — are holding their collective noses to cheer for the 49ers in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
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Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
The Arkansas plantation house in which generations of the family have lived, in eyeshot of the cemetery where generations of their slaves are buried, is now a hellhole in spirit and fact.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
Nobody wants concerts to turn into airport-security hellholes with body-cavity searches.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
For one thing, New York run amok is the template for the current hysteria, a kind of wish in some quarters, that posits America’s cities as unspeakable hellholes.
—Thomas Beller, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
But the laundry room in my reality is a hellhole.
—Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
Attica was a hellhole, even for a prison.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021
Eric Holl with Real Reform Louisiana, which opposed the changes, noted that Pennsylvania, represented by its Supreme Court and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, ranks first on the hellhole list while also having relatively low auto insurance rates.
—David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
Drudgery backgrounds any workplace sitcom, but the catering comedy dug a special career hellhole.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
The Arkansas plantation house in which generations of the family have lived, in eyeshot of the cemetery where generations of their slaves are buried, is now a hellhole in spirit and fact.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
Nobody wants concerts to turn into airport-security hellholes with body-cavity searches.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
For one thing, New York run amok is the template for the current hysteria, a kind of wish in some quarters, that posits America’s cities as unspeakable hellholes.
—Thomas Beller, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
But the laundry room in my reality is a hellhole.
—Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
Attica was a hellhole, even for a prison.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021
Eric Holl with Real Reform Louisiana, which opposed the changes, noted that Pennsylvania, represented by its Supreme Court and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, ranks first on the hellhole list while also having relatively low auto insurance rates.
—David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
Drudgery backgrounds any workplace sitcom, but the catering comedy dug a special career hellhole.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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“Hellhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellhole. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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