living hell

Example Sentences

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"I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

They decided to move to Libya, but what was awaiting them there was a "living hell", Salma says.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2025

The duo were locked in a love/hate relationship throughout the series, with an emphasis on hate, as Parker’s character often made the lovelorn vampire’s life a living hell.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023

Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023

The article that appeared the next morning called the Mosses’ mobile home “a living hell for children.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter