How to Use hell-bent in a Sentence
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To plumb the majesty of such a place, to know its secrets, requires more than a hell-bent drive over Newfound Gap.
—Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
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The young man is hell-bent on fighting, and Jamie laughs at his stubbornness.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 24 June 2023
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The Sun Sentinel is hell-bent on championing the demise of South Florida due to global warming.
—Chuck Lehmann, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
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But nobody's hell-bent on doing this in the Republican Party.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
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Clearly, Hailey Bieber is hell-bent on pushing her highlighter swimwear agenda.
—Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
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For Putnam, great wasn’t great enough — the engineer was hell-bent on innovation, crafting state-of-the-art rooms with equipment that would soon be replicated around the country.
—Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
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Neither the government nor the army has done anything to stop rampaging Israeli settlers who are hell-bent on driving these people—some of whom are my friends—off their lands.
—David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2023
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After a bad episode of road rage left them hell-bent on ruining each other’s lives for months, the finale finds them at their lowest points, and also their most vulnerable.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 7 Apr. 2023
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The Trilogy tour, in all, was a dizzying, unstoppable force, a celebration of three Latin icons who are hell-bent on getting your hips moving and your throat hoarse from screaming.
—Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
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Powered by profound pain, these parents are hell-bent on ending the worst drug crisis ever recorded in U.S. history.
—Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
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Both Adam Clay and John Wick are retired from elite secret assassin organizations and are hell-bent on revenge.
—William Earl, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
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Minari’s Alan Kim stands out in a handful of scenes as a camper hell-bent on becoming a talent agent, barking into phones around the camp’s administrative offices like a tiny Ari Gold.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 July 2023
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In effect, those dolts have allied themselves with Hamas, a terrorist military cabal hell-bent on a latter-day holocaust.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
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But everyone at Sha, even the waitstaff, is so hell-bent on the benefits of the macrobiotic diet that there’s little point arguing.
—Mary Holland, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
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This ranges from their widespread, hell-bent determination to find purpose in work and pushing their employers to have a social conscience, to a sense of despair over their own and the world’s future finances.
—Paige Hagy, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
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Many workers are hell-bent on leaving the office once their workday ends, and couldn’t even be convinced to attend their annual office holiday parties last month.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
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Still, Democratic strategists might try harder to keep the future of their party happy than trying to win over the forces hell-bent on locking them out of power indefinitely.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
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Advertisement Still, one ironic outcome from these troubles is an orchestra hell-bent on proving its worth.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
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Our eighth annual list showcases some of the continent’s brightest minds that are hell-bent on actualizing change across the world and multiple sectors.
—Laura Smythe, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
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And yet, with actor and writer strikes ongoing, studios seem almost hell-bent on dashing any chance at real industry momentum.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 July 2023
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Others are foisted on you by corporations hell-bent on leveraging their market power for financial gain.
—Brian Barrett, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
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But the foundation appears to be consistent with Musk’s general disdain toward non-profit work, giving ammo to his detractors who see him as less of a visionary and more of a trolling profiteer hell-bent on acquiring power.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
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The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, has been hell-bent in pursuing its virtue-signaling decades-long experiment with global climate leadership.
—Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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Leaders hell-bent on getting workers back to the office often cite eroding workplace culture or productivity—likewise, managers in the study predicted that hybrid work would reduce productivity by 2.6%.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2024
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