as in hell
a state in which everything is out of order
it looks like heck in that boy's bedroom
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Recent Examples of heck
Let’s get the heck out of here.
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Frederick Dreier, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
Not that Kaiser ever really knows what the heck Levshunov is going to do next.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Mike Vrabel’s done a heck of a job in his return to Massachusetts.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
After the music was finished, the introductions were done, the two men came face to face and put on a heck of a show.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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Frederick Dreier, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
Not that Kaiser ever really knows what the heck Levshunov is going to do next.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Mike Vrabel’s done a heck of a job in his return to Massachusetts.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
After the music was finished, the introductions were done, the two men came face to face and put on a heck of a show.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for heck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heck
Noun
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In my favorite works of his, like A Case for the Existence of God and A Bright New Boise—a play that has its own surreal dynamic with television screens, which play images of hell in the middle of a big-box store—Hunter locates an unnerving mysticism in between the atoms of the hyper-real.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Starring alongside Rachel Weisz (playing twins Angela and Isabel Dodson), Reeves stars as John Constantine, a demonologist who sends evil spirits straight to hell while contending with Gabriel (Tilda Swinton) and Lucifer (Peter Stormare).—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Texas Tech started slow in Manhattan, but the dam eventually broke due to Tech’s havoc-wreaking defense.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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The real reason is to wreak as much havoc as humanly possible, or at least that’s what we’re given to believe from the way the hostess swans about while deftly manipulating dozens of puppet strings simultaneously.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And its cemeteries had grown into an overcrowded mess.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Parchment paper is a great tool for mess-free baking.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Oct. 2025
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Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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“Heck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heck. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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