How to Use hellfire in a Sentence

hellfire

noun

• With her, women, freed of halos or hellfire, entered the world of ethics.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The content of Santana’s music was its Latin hellfire vibe, its propulsive majesty.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 June 2023
• In one of the book’s few exciting scenes, a SWAT team is about to rain down hellfire on the home of a professional assassin.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• And, as Rake and his team soon find out, that hellfire of vengeance rains down upon them as a cataclysmic battle ensues.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Set against the backdrop of 19th-century London, the images are suffused with the ominous glow of hellfire (or at least Mrs. Lovett's oven).
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• Sometimes shafts of divine light pierce the ceiling; other times, blazing hellfire flashes up through the floor.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• Game of Thrones got off to a slow start tonight, but ended with a literal bang, as Daenerys and Drogon rained hellfire on the Lannister army.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Aug. 2017
• Hunters and marksmen scoffed; with its hellfire spray, the Sporter was blatantly unsporting.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• No halos here, no hellfire, few kings or queens, pretty much no suffering or death.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• So in addition to flooding and hellfire, climate change is going to make pollen season worse.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• Free and young, self-aware and selling collegiate gold, cramped and cracked out, Auburn Arena screams hellfire when 7-1 center Walker Kessler swats a shot.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Jan. 2022
• These unmanned aerial vehicles were armed for the first time after 9/11 with hellfire missiles.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2021
• Emal Ahmadi said his daughter Malika, 2, was among those killed by the U.S. hellfire missile.
  — NBC News, 18 Sep. 2021
• Then, in his first game on the job, nothing could prepare him for the marauding, apocalyptic hellfire that tore through East Lansing, Michigan.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2019
• Whatever happens next, the hellfire doesn’t seem like its burning itself out anytime soon.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2022
• 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, 23 Oct. 2023
• Though nimbler and little less hellfire than a lot of their peers, Tar still seethed with cycling metallic bass and measured bursts of rage that paired well with that onstage image and arsenal.
  — Kevin Warwick, Chicago Reader, 14 July 2017
• There are pill bottles on the car floor (Peep was nothing if not honest), a red light bathroom hookup, a giant hot dog, self-immolation, hellfire and a happy ending.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
• The selection ranges from mild to hellfire and often includes sauces with unique ingredients like pumpkin and peaches.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
• Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• Iceland Reason to watch: If anything, Iceland and its supporters might be the most fun group to watch in Russia with their full-on embrace of viking culture, all that smiting and raining hellfire.
  — Matt Bonesteel, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
• But all the exits were blocked by rubble from the aerial bombardment being carried as dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen rained down hellfire from above.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 13 May 2019
• Suddenly, a shower of hellfire from a hulking Brotherhood of Steel gunship rains down upon them.
  — Billy Studholme, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• In the reactor, 69 control rods slid smoothly into the hellfire furnace, creating an atomic sponge to soak up the neutron bullets.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• The hellfire-and-brimstone sermons are more interesting.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
• But for now, ecologists really want your help preventing new spreads—and that involves unleashing some hellfire fury on moss balls.
  — Jessica Leigh Hester, Wired, 27 Mar. 2021
• The two singers trade verses — Osbourne’s hellfire, clear-throated performance followed by Kilmister’s gravelly growls — and their voices blend in the chorus.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2021
• In the final blow, Scorpion unleashes his hellfire onto Sub-Zero.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2021
• Even the gruesome method of execution had an underlying purpose: Death at the stake gave recalcitrant heretics a taste of hellfire, offering them one final chance to recant and save their souls.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020
• Alice traffics in spiders, poison, necrophilia, dystopian heebie-jeebies, hellfire, madness — the full spectrum of bad vibes.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024