We've been having hellish weather lately.
The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
Recent Examples on the WebRounded up and imprisoned in barbed wire prison camps in some of the most hellish places and most desolate places in the country.—Abc News, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2024 In November of last year, Sarah Tabrizi was arrested and taken to Evin Prison, one of the most hellish places on earth.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Apr. 2024 Today, all that heat has boiled away the oceans and resulted in hellish surface temperatures high enough to melt lead.—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024 Pap shots of Kaia Gerber and Kendall Jenner are spliced with drone shots of hellish landfill sites in Accra, Ghana.—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024 But this hellish road trip also maintains a sense of hopefulness − via the growing relationship between Lee and Jessie – and is pretty exciting even with its multitude of horrors.—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024 Others in the crowd gesture at him to hurry, the hellish sky behind them orange-red.—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024 The tone of the music is dark and hellish mixed with silly and prankish.—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024 Meanwhile, Dawn’s performance in the Museum of Modern Fart fell short of the judges’ high expectations, while Morphine Love Dion couldn’t find her spark in her her hellish commode.—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
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