hell-bent
adjective
: stubbornly and often recklessly determined or intent
hell-bent on winning
hell-bent
adverb
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Examples of hell-bent in a Sentence
she's hell-bent on a career in show business and heaven help anyone who gets in her way
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Breathtakingly gory and hell-bent on a very particular type of early-aughts destruction, Final Destination 2 is a slasher movie crossed with something approaching a supernatural action film.
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Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2024
Mack was hell-bent on pursuing music, scribbling down his thoughts and rhymes in a composition notebook and teaching himself to play the drums.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
Advertisement Much to unpack here, but my first thought: Is everyone with the last name DeSantis hell-bent on stripping people of their personal rights?
—Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
These systems may not be enough to stop a hell-bent Beijing from getting boots on Taiwan’s shores.
—Jonathan Caverley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
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Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2024
Mack was hell-bent on pursuing music, scribbling down his thoughts and rhymes in a composition notebook and teaching himself to play the drums.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
Advertisement Much to unpack here, but my first thought: Is everyone with the last name DeSantis hell-bent on stripping people of their personal rights?
—Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
These systems may not be enough to stop a hell-bent Beijing from getting boots on Taiwan’s shores.
—Jonathan Caverley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Hell-bent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hell-bent. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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