How to Use hellscape in a Sentence
hellscape
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Those swollen welts can turn the warmer months into an itchy hellscape.
—Kirsten Nunez, SELF, 25 Aug. 2022
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The third section of Unforgiving Years takes place in the hellscape of Berlin in the last days of the war.
—Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
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This lethal hellscape of a pool was discovered off the coast of New Orleans.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
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Some of you expressed support for the idea, saying a fee to make your commute less of a hellscape would be worth it.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
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Videos showing Black and brown shoplifters were used to paint the city as a liberal hellscape of its own making.
—Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
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To me, bypassing the hellscape that is TSA is almost worth the price of admission alone.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 11 May 2023
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Well, that’s where the hellscape inside the social media sewer takes over.
—Dan Wiederer, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
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She gets sucked into the hellscape that is the Kevin Pearson-Olivia Maine melodrama!
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2022
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For one, the Earth of 2045 that Wade is escaping from is a dystopian hellscape wrecked by climate change.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2022
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Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
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The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time.
—Anastasia Kozyreva, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
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More home and garden coverage Nextdoor can be a hellscape.
—Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
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Last year, for instance, saw the debut of a maze inspired by the hedonistic hellscapes of songs and videos from pop artist the Weeknd.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
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When the Covid-19 crisis was still in its infancy, one governor looked around and saw the hellscape that was on the horizon.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
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Caught in a hellscape, some residents died in their cars, while others jumped into the ocean or tried to run for safety.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Rebecca Boone The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
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Jordan began to suspect that the hellscape of her life would never improve.
—ELLE, 6 Feb. 2023
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Kind of like the Red Sox turning October into a charmed playground instead of a cursed hellscape.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021
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But hardly for our city, especially those who live, work and play in the vicinity of this hellscape.
—Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
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The Weeknd's Phoenix concert was an epic, post-apocalyptic hellscape.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
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Ecuador's biggest city, Guayaquil, was a pandemic hellscape of makeshift morgues, hundreds dying at home, bodies left in the street.
—Christopher Torchia, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
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Trump lives in Florida, undercutting his portrait of the state as a Bosch-ian hellscape.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
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Winter months can see frigid blasts of Arctic air while summer can feel like an endless hellscape of triple-digit days.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2024
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Look at what a hellscape America under Joe Biden has become.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
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The daring daytime mission was performed by a small team of volunteers who shuttled them south through the Gaza hellscape.
—Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
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Angelenos attempt to answer a 30-year-old question: Is L.A. a hellscape?
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
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These two are stuck in space, with only their mission and the Sartre-esque hellscape of each other, with quite literally nowhere else to go and nothing else to do.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 20 June 2023
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That’s just not how it’s gone with the hellscape created by shrinking access to reproductive care.
—Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
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Evidence from the Spitzer Telescope indicates that the 55 Cancri e planet is one such hellscape.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2023
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Putin's missile attacks continue to kill and terrorize civilians; much of Ukraine is a hellscape of rubble, craters, and fresh graves.
—William Falk, The Week, 5 Mar. 2023
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Without that right, the social media companies say their sites would quickly devolve into a hellscape of hate speech and defamation.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2024
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