hellfire
Example Sentences
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He, like anyone else here, knew firsthand about the hellfire that raised them in north Omaha.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2023
But the channel’s loyalists responded to the cuts with hellfire, interpreting them as a further marginalization of an art form and a personal attack.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023
Lisa Bryn Rundle, host of the CBC podcast "Uncover: Satanic Panic," calls that book "Michelle Remembers," a now discredited memoir: "the spark that set off the hellfire."
From Salon • May 29, 2022
The ancients thought Earth’s center was hollow: the home of Hades or hellfire, or a realm of tunnels that heated ocean waters.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022
He’s completely covered in clay except for the streaks on his cheeks from crying and the hellfire green eyes that are drilling into me.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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