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

“As a teenager in the 1980s, I thought Christianity was either the boring middle class at prayer, or it was Jimmy Swaggart’s hellfire Pentecostalism,” Mr. Dreher told me.

From New York Times • May 8, 2020

There was also a church where the Reverend Cartwright told us about God and the Devil, about heaven and hellfire.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell