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Recent Examples of infernal Christ and his angels battled for your salvation, while the Devil and his many demonic spirits sought to trick and tempt, to pull you into their infernal kingdom. James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 The stake, with the hooded heretic, the black man or the witch attached to it, is the burning tree and body of the infernal world. John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 At the end of the day, Jake can’t meditate for ten seconds without having to take a leak, and Katagiri can’t do it without the infernal hum of Tokyo, in all its movement and machinations and people living and breathing and fighting and dying, bringing him back to earth. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024 Bees, wasps, and yellowjackets—with their infernal stings—are similarly creatures of the summer. Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 24 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for infernal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infernal
Adjective
  • First introduced in the cursed sapphic speed dating scene (see above), Ash’s confident yet charming personality immediately won both me and Taylor over.
    Ana Osorno, Them, 21 Mar. 2025
  • And the cursed Vula tribe was heading back to Tribal Council.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The boys now harbor a terrible secret of their own.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But the point is, every team has a few terrible losses in the course of a season.
    Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • To have hate at such a young age for another student is awful.
    Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But against lefties, while hitting from the righty batter's box, Cabrera has been downright awful, with a .562 OPS and anemic .209 batting average in 187 career plate appearances.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Drawing the line isn’t easy, and the damnable thing is that standards change from generation to generation.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 notes column brings you what’s on our minds, locally and nationally but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s big, weird, damnable, funny or otherwise worth needling, as the sports week just past pivots to the week ahead.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
  • When the moment of triumph finally arrived, with a blasted inside-in forehand to the postage stamp corner of the court, Djokovic, 37, crouched to his knees and immediately succumbed to the first set of tears.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.
    Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The others have tried to forget all about it, and have managed to put some distance between themselves and their accursed hometown.
    New York Times, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Infernal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infernal. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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