living hell
Example Sentences
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Police say Damian A. made their lives "a living hell".
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
She likened Baron Cohen to a "fourth-grade bully who teases the fat girl on the playground and tries to make her life a living hell".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
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
I could see in his eyes that he knew he was a man again, a man returned from a living hell.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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