How to Use infernal in a Sentence

infernal

adjective

• Stop making that infernal racket!
• The infernal scenes threaten to take a turn for the worse.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 20 Mar. 2021
• The Times Square of The Deuce is not just infernal but well on its way to collapse.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
• But where to start was the infernal question; every attempt would be a stab in the dark.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
• Now the infernal Cruella gets a movie to herself, with Emma Stone in the title role.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 May 2021
• Baise-Moi is a torrent of a text, trapped in the velocity of an infernal present.
  — Nadja Spiegelman, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• In the infernal summers, the 14-foot-high great room shuts out the heat and keeps in the cool, while glazing on all sides lets in the views of the mountains and the desert that drew Mr. Simon to the area in the first place.
  — WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, the powers behind the game seem to agree that the contests are too long, and are trying to cut down on the dawdling and those infernal pitcher’s mound chit-chats.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• The kitchen itself is roughly 100 square feet, barely enough space to fit the infernal oven and a station to construct pies.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2022
• The infernal re-spinning, too, as the Dolphins’ machine that once praised Ndamukong Suh for his talent on the way in the door now questions his make-up on the way out.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The terrain of the jungle is forever young and infernal.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• Kurtz lives in an infernal empire of rotting corpses and severed heads.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• In Miami Vice, the city, shot on video, gives off an infernal digital glow that speaks not of hopes and dreams, but of pure menace.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
• Outside, the sun cast an infernal heat on the city, with the temperature brushing up to 100 degrees.
  — Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• John might be gone but infernal curses persist on our show.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• The vaguely infernal appearance of casino floors — the reddish hues, the lack of natural light and fresh air — fits right in here.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• Smoke from wildfires in Canada lent skies across the northern United States an infernal hue this past June.
  — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• As a brand, Annabelle’s infernal power knows no limits.
  — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
• In Stapleton's songs, whiskey, lust, music and the lure of the road loom as infernal demons that waylay many an earnest seeker of peace and happiness.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 5 July 2017
• The bustle of the mountain stream a stone’s throw from the tent created a symphony with a rhythm that had lulled me fast to sleep, but the infernal inner clock was having none of it.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2020
• Hughes rotated a ball valve a quarter-turn to launch, and the rocket leapt skyward with an infernal hiss.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
• The oil sands are an infernal region, with mountains of literal brimstone and lakes of poison.
  — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
• Harpies, warlocks, and abyssal knights are constantly breaching the walls, and players have to muster their own infernal forces to consign the interlopers back to the pits.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 1 June 2021
• Does Slayer look forward to partying with the Evil One in the infernal inferno?
  — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
• And, really, have many young quarterbacks had more infernal noise around them than Tua?
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• Ballingrud gives us an epic adventure of infernal swashbuckling, burnin' love, double-(upside-down) crosses and gore by the gallon.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
• In its compacted span, the text skips, as if powered by some infernal engine, across eons and eras: from mud hut to modern hovel, from Iron Age to ironclads.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2023
• The vast majority of racers to enter cycling’s most infernal race have never made it to the finish line.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019
• Scrat’s pursuit of an infernal acorn has world-changing consequences for Manny, Diego and Sid.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• And so began my long-overdue quest to free myself of those infernal adapters, spurred on by Comcast’s latest round of price increases.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024