How to Use hell in a Sentence
hell
noun- The pain has made her life a living hell.
- Living with the disease can be a hell on earth.
- She had to go through hell to get where she is today.
- Getting the loan approved was pure hell.
- He went through hell during his divorce.
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All hell is about to break loose.
—Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
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It’s been a hell of a first week.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
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It’s been a hell of a first week.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
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That's hell for a kid to see that.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
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But the karma has been hell to pay.
—Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
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Middle school is hell on earth.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
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The word agentic has been abused to hell.
—PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
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The work is finished and hell still knows.
—Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
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That's a hell of a lineup right there.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
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There's no f---ing way in hell that that would even be a thing.
—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
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It's been a hell of a day, workwise.
—ABC News, 26 May 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
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All’s well that metal-as-hells well.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
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Amazing cast and crew and one hell of a wild script!
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 June 2026
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Even hell doesn’t want those monsters.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
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The bar shouldn’t be in hell, even if the country is.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
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The saga seems tailor-made for these mad-as-hell times.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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In other words, who knows what fresh hell awaits us next year.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
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Yes, these Eagles have been to hell.
—Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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Even the Primettes [the group’s first name] is a hell of a name.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
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