How to Use hellfire in a Sentence
hellfire
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With her, women, freed of halos or hellfire, entered the world of ethics.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
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The content of Santana’s music was its Latin hellfire vibe, its propulsive majesty.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 June 2023
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In one of the book’s few exciting scenes, a SWAT team is about to rain down hellfire on the home of a professional assassin.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
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And, as Rake and his team soon find out, that hellfire of vengeance rains down upon them as a cataclysmic battle ensues.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 June 2023
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Set against the backdrop of 19th-century London, the images are suffused with the ominous glow of hellfire (or at least Mrs. Lovett's oven).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
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Sometimes shafts of divine light pierce the ceiling; other times, blazing hellfire flashes up through the floor.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
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Game of Thrones got off to a slow start tonight, but ended with a literal bang, as Daenerys and Drogon rained hellfire on the Lannister army.
—Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Aug. 2017
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Hunters and marksmen scoffed; with its hellfire spray, the Sporter was blatantly unsporting.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
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No halos here, no hellfire, few kings or queens, pretty much no suffering or death.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
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So in addition to flooding and hellfire, climate change is going to make pollen season worse.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
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Free and young, self-aware and selling collegiate gold, cramped and cracked out, Auburn Arena screams hellfire when 7-1 center Walker Kessler swats a shot.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 20 Jan. 2022
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These unmanned aerial vehicles were armed for the first time after 9/11 with hellfire missiles.
—Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
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Emal Ahmadi said his daughter Malika, 2, was among those killed by the U.S. hellfire missile.
—NBC News, 18 Sep. 2021
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Then, in his first game on the job, nothing could prepare him for the marauding, apocalyptic hellfire that tore through East Lansing, Michigan.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 27 Aug. 2019
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Whatever happens next, the hellfire doesn’t seem like its burning itself out anytime soon.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2022
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Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
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Though nimbler and little less hellfire than a lot of their peers, Tar still seethed with cycling metallic bass and measured bursts of rage that paired well with that onstage image and arsenal.
—Kevin Warwick, Chicago Reader, 14 July 2017
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There are pill bottles on the car floor (Peep was nothing if not honest), a red light bathroom hookup, a giant hot dog, self-immolation, hellfire and a happy ending.
—John Norris, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
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The selection ranges from mild to hellfire and often includes sauces with unique ingredients like pumpkin and peaches.
—Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
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Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
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Iceland Reason to watch: If anything, Iceland and its supporters might be the most fun group to watch in Russia with their full-on embrace of viking culture, all that smiting and raining hellfire.
—Matt Bonesteel, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
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But all the exits were blocked by rubble from the aerial bombardment being carried as dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen rained down hellfire from above.
—Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 13 May 2019
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Suddenly, a shower of hellfire from a hulking Brotherhood of Steel gunship rains down upon them.
—Billy Studholme, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
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In the reactor, 69 control rods slid smoothly into the hellfire furnace, creating an atomic sponge to soak up the neutron bullets.
—Washington Post, 30 May 2017
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The hellfire-and-brimstone sermons are more interesting.
—Sarah Jones, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
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But for now, ecologists really want your help preventing new spreads—and that involves unleashing some hellfire fury on moss balls.
—Jessica Leigh Hester, Wired, 27 Mar. 2021
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The two singers trade verses — Osbourne’s hellfire, clear-throated performance followed by Kilmister’s gravelly growls — and their voices blend in the chorus.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2021
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In the final blow, Scorpion unleashes his hellfire onto Sub-Zero.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2021
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Even the gruesome method of execution had an underlying purpose: Death at the stake gave recalcitrant heretics a taste of hellfire, offering them one final chance to recant and save their souls.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020
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Alice traffics in spiders, poison, necrophilia, dystopian heebie-jeebies, hellfire, madness — the full spectrum of bad vibes.
—John Adamian, courant.com, 28 June 2019
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