infernal

Example Sentences

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They constituted hitting a new bottom, a new and infernal, face-lit-by-flames bottom, in world communications.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Her right hand, fingers curled, rests on the infernal machine, while her left hand is open on the windowsill.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

Its three suns move and align in such a way as to create regular but random apocalyptic events, from infernal heat to sudden ice ages to gravitational vortexes, that destroy the civilization again and again.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

For now, all scientists can do is monitor the infernal proceedings—and hope that their observations will, eventually, reveal the secrets behind this novel show of volcanic force.

From National Geographic • Dec. 19, 2023

She demanded, “He shall not die in that chamber. Philosophers require a whole retinue of devils for their removal from this world. They are the grandees of the infernal kingdom.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson