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.
• The red glow of the restaurant’s neon sign gives the tableau a hellish cast.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
• These were the features of the hellish streetscape a few blocks from Ground Zero.
  — Robert King, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
• Drake told him to stick close to Yang and be ready for a ‘hellish sprint’ for the finish line.
  — Tim Genske, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• 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 Earth was a hellish place that had only just acquired a firm crust.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
• Andiria has learned a lot about the hellish world of addiction in her short 10 years.
  — Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The fighting took place on the hellish Maeda Escarpment in April 1945.
  — Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2022
• By contrast, to be young in 2020 was—for most American teenagers—rather hellish.
  — Niall Ferguson, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• North Korea is the most hellish, least free, most oppressive place on earth.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
• Billions of years ago, conditions on Earth were far too hellish for life to take root.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2017
• Come for the downward spiral of hellish despair, stay for macabre goat Black Phillip and the ominous climax.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• While its appearance is hellish, its size — at two to four inches — is less than intimidating.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024