hell
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Judge Murray Shanks said the jury's findings suggested Chowdhury "didn't know what the hell was going on", adding that it seemed a "reasonable verdict, I have to admit".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
This is, as best we can tell, what hell looks like from a handbasket.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
That’s a hell of a recruiting tool for reporters to join the travel pool.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
“He fought like hell for the things he believed in, and he was just as willing to go to bat for you when it counted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
“Then, it was just five minutes to go—then zero—and all hell broke loose,” recalled British sergeant-major Richard Tobin.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
It was a roustabout settlement with three stores, a blacksmithy, a boarding house, a half-dozen saloons, gambling hells and dance halls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
"So this is glamour, people are walking past saying I've seen that bodysuit in M&S, I must get one... but it was all fine, there was no fire - only in the nine hells."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
It’s going to be one hell of an offseason, and there’s nothing like hells of offseasons.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
On August 4th, we watched from our separate hells as a 40,000-foot cloud the color of bruised flesh collapsed over the ridge west of Greenville.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021
He could see that now; seven hells, he had seen it then.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
