How to Use hellscape in a Sentence
hellscape
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Those swollen welts can turn the warmer months into an itchy hellscape.
—Kirsten Nunez, SELF, 25 Aug. 2022
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Pratt has been portraying the city as a lethal hellscape.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
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So why is Venus a hellscape, and Earth a garden?
—Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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Los Angeles is not a hellscape.
—Karen Bass, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
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What should a person looking for a job in this AI hellscape do?
—Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 2 June 2026
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Actually lay them out so my mornings are less of a hellscape.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025
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Well, that’s where the hellscape inside the social media sewer takes over.
—Dan Wiederer, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
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Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
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The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time.
—Anastasia Kozyreva, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
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Some of you expressed support for the idea, saying a fee to make your commute less of a hellscape would be worth it.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
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Jordan began to suspect that the hellscape of her life would never improve.
—ELLE, 6 Feb. 2023
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This lethal hellscape of a pool was discovered off the coast of New Orleans.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
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Videos showing Black and brown shoplifters were used to paint the city as a liberal hellscape of its own making.
—Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
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Caught in a hellscape, some residents died in their cars, while others jumped into the ocean or tried to run for safety.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Rebecca Boone The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
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In their way is a decaying hellscape of imminent danger at every turn.
—Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
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But hardly for our city, especially those who live, work and play in the vicinity of this hellscape.
—Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
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Io is a volcanic hellscape in a radiation furnace.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
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If that’s not enough, this hellscape of a world features perpetual sulfuric acid rain.
—Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
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Its portrayal of the Philippines as a third-world hellscape hasn’t gone unnoticed.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
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Winter months can see frigid blasts of Arctic air while summer can feel like an endless hellscape of triple-digit days.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2024
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Woo’s eye-popping vistas stand out right from the start, during lonely shots of Ahn traversing an icy hellscape.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
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The narrative in the TV business has been pretty rough the last few years, some might call it a hellscape.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025
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The Weeknd's Phoenix concert was an epic, post-apocalyptic hellscape.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
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That’s just not how it’s gone with the hellscape created by shrinking access to reproductive care.
—Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
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Having a public opinion on a video game or The Acolyte could turn your mentions into a hellscape.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
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Trapped in this hellscape was 14-year-old Mudaralla, an orphan.
—Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
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Obama’s controversial first term looks like a placid oasis compared with the hellscape of today.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 Jan. 2022
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The outside is a toxic hellscape that is only visible on big screens in the silo’s topmost level.
—ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
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By late afternoon that day, the Palisades had turned into an unimaginable hellscape.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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Hawkins, Indiana, has not turned into a hellscape of Demogorgons and slimy vines.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
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