How to Use hellhole in a Sentence

hellhole

noun
  • The factory is a hellhole.
  • All of you Muslims need to go back to the hellholes your from.
    Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Back when the crew worked in a tiny, scorching hellhole of a kitchen.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2022
  • The franchise is back with a new season set in the hellhole that was 1980s NYC.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Sharon, Pancake and Shortie were out of the hellhole and on the road to Norfolk, asleep.
    Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Moore was born in 1918, in Minden, La., a Jim Crow hellhole located in the northwest part of the state.
    Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • And yet, for a hellhole, people seem to really like this place.
    oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Rafael’s and Mateo’s aunt, Luisa is determined to get her nephews out of this hellhole of a bind.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Not a hellhole to be sure, and it is expected Russell will sign a four-year, $117 contract.
    Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 1 July 2019
  • There is no process, writing is a nightmare, Hollywood is a hellhole, there’s no point to any of this.
    Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Reject this plan and you’ll be stuck with the Penn Station hellhole for eternity.
    Curbed, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The first movie exploited 1970s New York City as an urban hellhole.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Alabama will be moving 600 inmates out of the hellhole that is Holman Prison and putting them ... where?
    J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 30 Jan. 2020
  • How much dough does one need, even in Manhattan, where hourly parking for over two hours at some hellhole of a downtown garage can be $75?
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 4 Jan. 2017
  • There are a lot of young, smart, ambitious people moving to those left-wing hellholes, for some reason.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 25 Aug. 2019
  • How this fits into the space concept thing isn’t super-clear (the song lines up with planet Ultra, which must be a real hellhole).
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Nolan’s premise that everything is dark and ironic leads him to embrace dystopia, the symbolic hellhole that is Gotham City.
    Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
  • This was always something of a bold opinion, given that Twitter has–for a very long time—been a joyless hellhole.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 July 2022
  • My parents retired to a total hellhole, not so much as a nearby playground, that requires a four-hour flight.
    Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Trying to make sure the inner city kids that grew up in my hometown can have a brighter future and look at me as inspiration to get out of the hellhole of the inner city.
    Faith Karimi and Wayne Sterling, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Yet when faced with the vehicle that can take her and her child, Holly, away from this hellhole, June makes a surprising decision.
    refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
  • That is what drives them nuts because if that means that the United States is not the worst racist hellhole for nonwhite people, then their whole value system gets exploded.
    Fox News, 24 June 2018
  • Covering the world’s wars and political hellholes, there have been many—some famous, many little-known.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Yet, despite this doomsday Armageddon hellhole that feels like The Handmaid’s Tale come to life, there have been small victories...and those are actually big deals.
    Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 24 May 2019
  • But people like Tucker Carlson spend their time saying that America is a hellhole, awash in immigrants.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The series’ angle, essentially, is that classic-era Hollywood was a hellhole, a place where vast amounts of money and fame were dangled in front of talented, shrewd, and shameless people at the price of their souls.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • And in that notorious hellhole, Daniels — who was never convicted of anything — rotted away year after year.
    New York Times, 3 May 2018
  • Drudgery backgrounds any workplace sitcom, but the catering comedy dug a special career hellhole.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The game cemented the aesthetic of an emerging franchise—a decaying post-industrial hellhole where not even blood was brightly colored—and the design template for a nascent platform.
    Jake Muncy, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2016
  • And wander into the old pink building, a living fossil built by the heiress to a copper fortune around 1930 to provide genteel lodgings for genteel people in this Mexican hellhole of a town burning in this unspeakable desert.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018

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