living hell

Example Sentences

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He described his life since Leo's death as a "living hell", adding: "Leo, I will always miss you and I will get justice for you."

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Spitzer commended the hospital staff “who rescued this defenseless baby from the living hell he was born into.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

"Families were failed. We have always said this inquiry is about learning lessons so that nobody should go through again what we did. This is a living hell," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2024

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

“You sure shot the living hell out of that gray thing,” Hassan said.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green