Examples of hellhole in a Sentence
The factory is a hellhole.
his first apartment was a hellhole in an unsafe neighborhood
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Newsom defended California against Republican attacks — and common mindsets throughout much of America — that the Golden State is a socialist hellhole of high taxes, unaffordable living and rampant crime.
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George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Max believes that the exit out of this hellhole will be in the memory of the moment Henry trapped your mind.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2025
Glen Powell plays Ben Richards, an honest working man trying to hold his family together in a futuristic hellhole dystopia.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
Pritzker has been trying to debunk claims that Chicago is an out-of-control hellhole; to assert in court that the federal government has no right to send in federal troops; and to discredit the tactics by immigration agents to arrest migrants in his state’s streets and businesses.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Max believes that the exit out of this hellhole will be in the memory of the moment Henry trapped your mind.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2025
Glen Powell plays Ben Richards, an honest working man trying to hold his family together in a futuristic hellhole dystopia.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
Pritzker has been trying to debunk claims that Chicago is an out-of-control hellhole; to assert in court that the federal government has no right to send in federal troops; and to discredit the tactics by immigration agents to arrest migrants in his state’s streets and businesses.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Hellhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellhole. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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