hell on earth
Example Sentences
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One described the night as "hell on earth", and another as "a scene from a dystopian film".
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
"It's hell on earth, there is nothing you can do. You ask yourself what you should have done."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
"Jack's birthday was hell on earth and this last few days it's getting harder because the answers are just not coming," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2024
Three decades after a national publication probed the city’s ills, we gathered a panel of Angelenos to ponder the age-old question: Is Los Angeles hell on earth?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Nothing in her experience—her difficult childhood, her previous work with injured patients—had prepared her for this kind of hell on earth.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
