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

And I’m not even talking about the sequel where the bullying mogul Biff Tannen turns downtown Hill Valley into a hellish Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

It has trumped hellish geology and cranked out dozens of gushers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it—hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson