How to Use hell-bent in a Sentence

hell-bent

adjective

• Trump seems hell-bent on killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The young man is hell-bent on fighting, and Jamie laughs at his stubbornness.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 24 June 2023
• But Hoyer has been hell-bent this winter to make sure a lack of relief depth won’t be an issue in 2025.
  — Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
• 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
• But the county is less likely to get the money if Fort Lauderdale is hell-bent against a bridge, according to the experts.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2024
• There’s no doubt that if healthy, Brown will be impacting a team that is hell-bent on returning to the postseason for the first time in five years.
  — Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
• Indeed, some Israelis are hell-bent on something worse than Trump’s deal of the century.
  — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2025
• Kreese is hell-bent on his goal to get to the Sekai Taikai with Cobra Kai, and that feels like a long, ruminating ambition for him.
  — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 20 July 2024
• The Sun Sentinel is hell-bent on championing the demise of South Florida due to global warming.
  — Chuck Lehmann, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• Ramirez attempted to flee via car-jacking but was held down by an angry mob hell-bent on his capture.
  — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
• Since last season ended with a thud in the Peach Bowl, Marques Hagans was hell-bent on ensuring his receivers wouldn’t be the team’s weak link again.
  — Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• The schedule is demanding, but Shiu, who is 63 years old and has been dancing for almost 50 years, is hell-bent on continuing to lead and train with the West Coast team.
  — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
• The schedule is demanding, but Shiu, who is 63 years old and has been dancing for almost 50 years, is hell-bent on continuing to lead and train with the West Coast team.
  — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
• But nobody's hell-bent on doing this in the Republican Party.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Clearly, Hailey Bieber is hell-bent on pushing her highlighter swimwear agenda.
  — Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
• Those are directives straight from Berube that Robertson has been hell-bent on implementing.
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
• Fans online appeared charmed by the scrappy cast of characters who were hell-bent on finishing the Shakespearean work.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
• Andra Day gives one of the year's best genre performances as Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother raising two kids in a house hell-bent on taking their souls.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Oct. 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
• Context: Reinsdorf is reportedly in talks with a group that is hell-bent on bringing a baseball franchise to Nashville.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Lucia is just out of jail in Leonida, a fictional stand-in for Florida, and is hell-bent on enjoying her newfound freedom.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Now, though, Koepp is seemingly hell-bent on reviving the midsize feature that Hollywood has been missing.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
• 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