Examples of hellish in a Sentence
Stephen Daw, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2024
The process of applying to city’s public high schools is hellish, and last year was one of the deadliest on record for cyclists, to cite just two examples.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The hellish image of burning rivers helped motivate the signing of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, as well as the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
—Paul Draus, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
Those scenes, set in a hellish war zone ruled by sadistic thugs, are gruesome in their depiction of what joining ISIS means for naïve boys like Mehdi and Amine.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
After all, everyone’s commute was as hellish as this, right?
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
Odesa, a vibrant port nestled alongside the Black Sea in southwest Ukraine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its contributions to cinema, literature and the arts, had been thrust into the hellish fire of war.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
Harvey Keitel plays an Auschwitz survivor who recalls the demons of his past and falling in love in a hellish Nazi death camp in the trailer for The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the Peacock and Sky limited series that unveiled a trailer on Thursday.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
In 2011, county transportation officials heralded a widening project that would make driving less hellish through the infamous Sepulveda Pass.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
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Word History
circa 1530, in the meaning defined above
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellish. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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