Examples of hellish in a Sentence
We've been having hellish weather lately.
The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
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Pap shots of Kaia Gerber and Kendall Jenner are spliced with drone shots of hellish landfill sites in Accra, Ghana.
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
But this hellish road trip also maintains a sense of hopefulness − via the growing relationship between Lee and Jessie – and is pretty exciting even with its multitude of horrors.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
Others in the crowd gesture at him to hurry, the hellish sky behind them orange-red.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The tone of the music is dark and hellish mixed with silly and prankish.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, Dawn’s performance in the Museum of Modern Fart fell short of the judges’ high expectations, while Morphine Love Dion couldn’t find her spark in her her hellish commode.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
The process of applying to city’s public high schools is hellish, and last year was one of the deadliest on record for cyclists, to cite just two examples.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The hellish image of burning rivers helped motivate the signing of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, as well as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
—Paul Draus, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
Those scenes, set in a hellish war zone ruled by sadistic thugs, are gruesome in their depiction of what joining ISIS means for naïve boys like Mehdi and Amine.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
But this hellish road trip also maintains a sense of hopefulness − via the growing relationship between Lee and Jessie – and is pretty exciting even with its multitude of horrors.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
Others in the crowd gesture at him to hurry, the hellish sky behind them orange-red.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The tone of the music is dark and hellish mixed with silly and prankish.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, Dawn’s performance in the Museum of Modern Fart fell short of the judges’ high expectations, while Morphine Love Dion couldn’t find her spark in her her hellish commode.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
The process of applying to city’s public high schools is hellish, and last year was one of the deadliest on record for cyclists, to cite just two examples.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The hellish image of burning rivers helped motivate the signing of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, as well as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
—Paul Draus, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
Those scenes, set in a hellish war zone ruled by sadistic thugs, are gruesome in their depiction of what joining ISIS means for naïve boys like Mehdi and Amine.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellish. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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