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Recent Examples of hellfire
Van Zweden, leading the Philharmonic with the excellent singers of Musica Sacra, slid back into old habit of blazing through a score, which robbed sections like the hellfire Dies Irae of their heft.
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Joshua Barone, New York Times, 31 May 2024
The online opinions didn’t stop at hellfire, however.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
First, the advent of Marvin Miller’s reign of hellfire for the MLB players union delivered free agency, allowing players to serve out their initial contract, hit the market, and get the Yankees to pay you millions.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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Joshua Barone, New York Times, 31 May 2024
The online opinions didn’t stop at hellfire, however.
—Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
First, the advent of Marvin Miller’s reign of hellfire for the MLB players union delivered free agency, allowing players to serve out their initial contract, hit the market, and get the Yankees to pay you millions.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024
Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for hellfire
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hellfire
Noun
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Temporarily relocating a water intake to draw water from the lower levels of the mine pit where sulfide levels are higher.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Feb. 2025
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Compact and lightweight, these fire pits can easily move around your space.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
Fox News,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The fact that frantic diplomatic officials and business leaders managed to convince Petro to turn back from the abyss highlights the degree to which the Colombian economy is dependent on exports to the United States.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2025
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And, while everyone else was distracted by pandemics and politics and TikTok, the cold, skeletal hand of time pulled the millennials into the abyss.—
Alex Baia,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Or did Christ die only for us, leaving any other creatures to a kind of limbo or perdition?—
Amelia Soth,
JSTOR Daily,
27 June 2024
Noun
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Kiser didn’t want to get into too much detail about the fire and brimstone Freeman spewed the day before kickoff when the 38-year-old head coach showed that this program has a weapon leading it.—
Pete Sampson,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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Warne would not have approved of watering down fire and brimstone.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
4 Dec. 2024
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Having reached her breaking point, Kimmie slammed her car right into Body, a fellow stripper who spent the entirety of Part 1 making Kimmie’s life a living hell.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
30 Jan. 2025
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By Barry Levitt January 30, 2025 2:50 PM EST Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) went through hell in the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s The Recruit, barely making it out alive following an unsparingly violent mission.—
Barry Levitt,
TIME,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Hellfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hellfire. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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