hellfire

Example Sentences

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Perhaps that heat he feels is not the warmth of success, but the hellfire of the demon’s fury.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2025

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

And then he brought apocalyptic hellfire, scoring 31 points in the first half.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

Clara Schumann writes with a loveliness that Mahler underscores with an anxious darkness; Mayer’s “Erlkönig” churns with drama, but with more shape than Schubert’s hellfire.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

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