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Recent Examples of hell With the wrong family, whether for issues of fit or very real concerns of abuse, the au pair experience can be a living hell. Madeleine Janz, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025 It’s said that during the festival, the gates of hell open and ghosts visit earth. Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025 According to the team, the existence of a hell ant in Brazil shows that the insects were already widely distributed around the world and diversified sometime early in their evolution. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025 That lends credence to the authors’ hypotheses that hell ants were widely distributed, as well as great travelers. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hell
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hell
Noun
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that 18 suspects have been arrested for alleged arson amid the inferno, which has spread across more than 5,000 acres in the foothills of Jerusalem over the past two days.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • With too little carbon dioxide, Earth can become a frozen wasteland, and with too much, a sweltering inferno.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The reader is brought into the heart of Israel’s nightmare.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 15 May 2025
  • This harrowing, 35mm-shot story of pubescent boys tormenting each other at a water polo summer camp doubles as a coming-of-age drama and an adolescent, acne-scarred body-horror nightmare.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Minor presents a similar challenge with her speed and ability to create havoc.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • At 19, Harper’s poise and control are impressive, and even as a below-average outside shooter, his ability to create havoc in the paint and leverage his downhill gravity should translate to the pros immediately.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The agreement with the UK also gives other world leaders a reason to hope that other deals can rescue the global economy from the abyss, providing a framework for future negotiations.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • With deep-sea mining looming, biologists race to collect and name the undiscovered species of the abyss, the last wilderness on earth.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • In video of the attack released by police at the time, she can be heard screaming in agony.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 9 May 2025
  • Dropping dramatically to the floor, Busquets writhed in agony and Motta was duly sent off.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Another recent video on her page revealed this wasn't the last time her cat used a ball of yarn to cause a mess.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Sick of lugging a heavy vacuum around the house to make messes disappear?
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.
    Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Some of his misery has resulted from brilliant deflections or bad bounces off of his defencemen, but Hellebuyck is responsible for enough of his problems to earn the unwanted attention.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Strangling the dog to put it out of its misery could be seen as both an act of cruelty and an act of generosity, and that contradiction is interesting.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Hell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hell. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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