hellfire

Example Sentences

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Army Apache attack helicopters, which are equipped with Hellfire missiles, have long had the mission of striking Iranian mine-laying boats from Gulf states in the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“It was like a back-of-the-envelope thing — the cost of a Hellfire missile and the cost of hiring people to work on this.”

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

Eddie initially befriended Mike, Lucas and Dustin because of their shared love of Dungeons & Dragons, forming the Hellfire Club to play the game together.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

On Thursday morning at a riverside park in a Taipei suburb, troops practised re-fueling and re-arming Black Hawk and Apache helicopters with Hellfire and Stinger missiles supplied by the US.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

Hellfire raining down on her out of the sky and she held it off with a brolly.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein