How to Use hellhole in a Sentence
hellhole
noun- The factory is a hellhole.
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Back when the crew worked in a tiny, scorching hellhole of a kitchen.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2022
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The desert city, oasis or hellhole or both, can’t help but bounce back.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
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All of you Muslims need to go back to the hellholes your from.
—Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 10 Oct. 2017
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And yet, for a hellhole, people seem to really like this place.
—oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2022
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There are a lot of young, smart, ambitious people moving to those left-wing hellholes, for some reason.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 25 Aug. 2019
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There is no process, writing is a nightmare, Hollywood is a hellhole, there’s no point to any of this.
—Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2020
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My parents retired to a total hellhole, not so much as a nearby playground, that requires a four-hour flight.
—Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
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Reject this plan and you’ll be stuck with the Penn Station hellhole for eternity.
—Curbed, 26 Jan. 2022
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Rafael’s and Mateo’s aunt, Luisa is determined to get her nephews out of this hellhole of a bind.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
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Sharon, Pancake and Shortie were out of the hellhole and on the road to Norfolk, asleep.
—Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
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This was always something of a bold opinion, given that Twitter has–for a very long time—been a joyless hellhole.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 July 2022
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Not a hellhole to be sure, and it is expected Russell will sign a four-year, $117 contract.
—Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 1 July 2019
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Covering the world’s wars and political hellholes, there have been many—some famous, many little-known.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
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How this fits into the space concept thing isn’t super-clear (the song lines up with planet Ultra, which must be a real hellhole).
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
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How much dough does one need, even in Manhattan, where hourly parking for over two hours at some hellhole of a downtown garage can be $75?
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 4 Jan. 2017
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The franchise is back with a new season set in the hellhole that was 1980s NYC.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2022
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Nolan’s premise that everything is dark and ironic leads him to embrace dystopia, the symbolic hellhole that is Gotham City.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
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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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Trying to make sure the inner city kids that grew up in my hometown can have a brighter future and look at me as inspiration to get out of the hellhole of the inner city.
—Faith Karimi and Wayne Sterling, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
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Armstrong thinking Vegas is a total hellhole of a city hasn’t stopped him from showing up for the Green Day fans there.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
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Who wants to work to separate family members from each other or put people in a hellhole in the Everglades?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
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The first movie exploited 1970s New York City as an urban hellhole.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
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Yet when faced with the vehicle that can take her and her child, Holly, away from this hellhole, June makes a surprising decision.
—refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
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Because that once promising social media public square has, instead, turned into a social media public hellhole.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Jan. 2025
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And in that notorious hellhole, Daniels — who was never convicted of anything — rotted away year after year.
—New York Times, 3 May 2018
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That is what drives them nuts because if that means that the United States is not the worst racist hellhole for nonwhite people, then their whole value system gets exploded.
—Fox News, 24 June 2018
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But people like Tucker Carlson spend their time saying that America is a hellhole, awash in immigrants.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
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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
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The game cemented the aesthetic of an emerging franchise—a decaying post-industrial hellhole where not even blood was brightly colored—and the design template for a nascent platform.
—Jake Muncy, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2016
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