hellfire

Example Sentences

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At the helm was Osbourne, who channeled the darker forces within this music with hypnotic wild-child abandon, as if he were possessed by the hellfire spirit.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025

The online opinions didn’t stop at hellfire, however.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

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

A diaristic piece on Dante’s “Inferno” slides effortlessly between visions of hellfire and the hushed winter landscape of Sweden.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2020

She’d already finished most of the dragon’s mouth—its lips snarled back to reveal huge razor teeth around an explosion of hellfire.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older