hellish

Example Sentences

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These real-life tradwives described hellish experiences, both for themselves and their children.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

Sections of charred scaffolding fell from the burning apartment blocks in hellish scenes late on Wednesday, as flames inside apartments sometimes belched out through windows into a night sky that glowed orange.

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

It is also, unmistakably, the work of a man who has survived a hellish ordeal and emerged with serious things to say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

The fire sequences alone, captured in the hellish fuzz of Pål Ulvik Rokseth’s cinematography, are pinnacles of this practical-meets-digital-effects discipline.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

It just made the hellish duct work hotter and more uncomfortable.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi