How to Use hellfire in a Sentence

hellfire

noun

• With her, women, freed of halos or hellfire, entered the world of ethics.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• No halos here, no hellfire, few kings or queens, pretty much no suffering or death.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Bang does better with the grotesquerie of hellfire, where lowballing the tone can have a sharp, often comic edge.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
• So in addition to flooding and hellfire, climate change is going to make pollen season worse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• Sometimes shafts of divine light pierce the ceiling; other times, blazing hellfire flashes up through the floor.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• Whatever happens next, the hellfire doesn’t seem like its burning itself out anytime soon.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2022
• And, as Rake and his team soon find out, that hellfire of vengeance rains down upon them as a cataclysmic battle ensues.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 June 2023
• The content of Santana’s music was its Latin hellfire vibe, its propulsive majesty.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 June 2023
• Hunters and marksmen scoffed; with its hellfire spray, the Sporter was blatantly unsporting.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• But for now, ecologists really want your help preventing new spreads—and that involves unleashing some hellfire fury on moss balls.
  — Jessica Leigh Hester, Wired, 27 Mar. 2021
• The selection ranges from mild to hellfire and often includes sauces with unique ingredients like pumpkin and peaches.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
• These unmanned aerial vehicles were armed for the first time after 9/11 with hellfire missiles.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
• These two accountability requirements made sure that everyone in the system would be in a hellfire hurry to teach children to read.
  — Rachel Canter, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
• Cornyn has vowed to rain hellfire on Paxton, who was impeached in 2023 on charges including bribery and abuse of the public trust.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
• Suddenly, a shower of hellfire from a hulking Brotherhood of Steel gunship rains down upon them.
  — Billy Studholme, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• Why does Biden believe that Americans have a right to own shotguns when an Auto-5 has no real chance against a hellfire missile?
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
• Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• Anduril has quite an impressive portfolio of machines capable of raining hellfire with the nudge of a joystick and a push of a button from any bunker in any part of the world at any time.
  — New Atlas, 11 Dec. 2024
• Alice traffics in spiders, poison, necrophilia, dystopian heebie-jeebies, hellfire, madness — the full spectrum of bad vibes.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 June 2019
• Soon, Happy Hollow is awash in rumors of teenage cults and demonic possession, and where there’s smoke, there may be actual hellfire.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
• There are pill bottles on the car floor (Peep was nothing if not honest), a red light bathroom hookup, a giant hot dog, self-immolation, hellfire and a happy ending.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
• In the reactor, 69 control rods slid smoothly into the hellfire furnace, creating an atomic sponge to soak up the neutron bullets.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• In one of the book’s few exciting scenes, a SWAT team is about to rain down hellfire on the home of a professional assassin.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• But all the exits were blocked by rubble from the aerial bombardment being carried as dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen rained down hellfire from above.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 13 May 2019
• Game of Thrones got off to a slow start tonight, but ended with a literal bang, as Daenerys and Drogon rained hellfire on the Lannister army.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Aug. 2017
• In the final blow, Scorpion unleashes his hellfire onto Sub-Zero.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2021
• Floridians seem intent, however, on creating their own personal version of hellfire.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
• Then, in his first game on the job, nothing could prepare him for the marauding, apocalyptic hellfire that tore through East Lansing, Michigan.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• Should designers, who work in an industry that is one of the biggest culprits for greenhouse gas emissions, at least be making clothes that people could reasonably aspire to wear in the hellfire summers to come?
  — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
• If unexpected hosiery is the biggest scandal of the moment—particularly after four years of Trumpian hellfire—I'll take it as a sign that things are going well.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2021