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

No halos here, no hellfire, few kings or queens, pretty much no suffering or death.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2023

He, like anyone else here, knew firsthand about the hellfire that raised them in north Omaha.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2023

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

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