hellish

Example Sentences

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It was a huge relief to become functional in this hellish new world, but I was never confident and always made sure to stay close to the others.

From Literature

Finding the beauty in that hellish croak — something that Josh Groban was able to do in the last Broadway revival — can prove exceptionally difficult.

From Los Angeles Times

So this time around, after a hellish year for myself, and frankly, the entire country, I decided Vitamin D was a requirement: I needed to go somewhere warm.

From Salon

Those who survived the hellish conditions within these forts were then forced onto ships bound for the Americas.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’ve been doing daily art journalism for 45 years — 36 of them at The Times, with 2,195 bylines — so I’m about to find out whether this quitting will also be hellish.

From Los Angeles Times