hell on earth
Example Sentences
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"The degree of illness and sickness that I went through was hell on earth, it was torture, to go through that and to be able to bounce back."
From BBC • May 7, 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
Their living conditions have been described by one human rights defender as "a hell on earth".
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025
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
