How to Use hellish in a Sentence

hellish

adjective
  • The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
  • We've been having hellish weather lately.
  • Andiria has learned a lot about the hellish world of addiction in her short 10 years.
    Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2017
  • From the simple act of looking arises a hellish struggle around being.
    Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Jan. 2018
  • It’s much harder to stick with hellish activities than pleasant ones.
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 23 Dec. 2017
  • But college partying led to several hellish years of addiction that landed him in a recovery center.
    Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The amount of material was like a book and the story was very personal and the creation of the record was a hellish, dramatic experience.
    Ilana Kaplan, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2017
  • For re-creating war in all its hellish sound and fury, Christopher Nolan got his first directing nom, which many consider overdue.
    Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a pure glee generated by the title’s fast and ferocious combat working in perfect harmony with its hellish visuals and sound design.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Another morning another hellish commute for New Yorkers.
    Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Michael Laforgia, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The red glow of the restaurant’s neon sign gives the tableau a hellish cast.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
  • On Monday, as a hellish fire tore through the center of...
    Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2019
  • The tone of the music is dark and hellish mixed with silly and prankish.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
  • High school has always been hellish, at least for some of us.
    Carol Mangis, PCMAG, 3 June 2022
  • The flames rose and were reflected in the clouds, turning the sky a hellish scarlet.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Elsewhere in the hellish scene were the bodies of fourth graders whose parents were friends of his.
    Reuters, NBC News, 26 May 2022
  • The idea of attempting to draw suitors in this heat is hellish.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Being a child is hellish, but the examples of the adults all around her seem even worse.
    Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Our key is to study maps hard and hit a lot of hellish country that is close to trailheads and jeep roads.
    Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2019
  • This was one long, hellish year with some highs, yes, but also some very painful lows.
    Martine Thompson, Bon Appétit, 22 Dec. 2020
  • That tight bear hug eight weeks ago is now entwined with some of the most hellish aspects of this war.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But those weeks leading up to my derm appointment were hellish, to say the least.
    Amber Brenza, SELF, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Hole pupfish has paddled back from the brink in a hellish desert domain.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • That set the stage for a hellish weekend, when, amid a severe heat wave, wildfires broke out.
    Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Just then came the hellish noise of an engine, and a motorcycle rose over a crest.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The cycle keeps going, like some type of hellish Groundhog Day.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Iran, by contrast, is so hellish that its people were happy the U.S. won.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Their name may have hellish connotation, but the Speed Demons got their start in church.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Each activation will feature a hellish mobile unit on the outside and the devil’s house on the inside.
    Andre Claudio, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Dancing it out to one of the most empowering breakup anthems ever after a whirlwind romance and hellish breakup.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2024

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