How to Use hellhole in a Sentence

hellhole

noun

• The factory is a hellhole.
• All of you Muslims need to go back to the hellholes your from.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 10 Oct. 2017
• Back when the crew worked in a tiny, scorching hellhole of a kitchen.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 12 May 2022
• The franchise is back with a new season set in the hellhole that was 1980s NYC.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• Sharon, Pancake and Shortie were out of the hellhole and on the road to Norfolk, asleep.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• Moore was born in 1918, in Minden, La., a Jim Crow hellhole located in the northwest part of the state.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• And yet, for a hellhole, people seem to really like this place.
  — oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2022
• Rafael’s and Mateo’s aunt, Luisa is determined to get her nephews out of this hellhole of a bind.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Nov. 2021
• Not a hellhole to be sure, and it is expected Russell will sign a four-year, $117 contract.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 1 July 2019
• There is no process, writing is a nightmare, Hollywood is a hellhole, there’s no point to any of this.
  — Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2020
• Reject this plan and you’ll be stuck with the Penn Station hellhole for eternity.
  — Curbed, 26 Jan. 2022
• The first movie exploited 1970s New York City as an urban hellhole.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Alabama will be moving 600 inmates out of the hellhole that is Holman Prison and putting them ... where?
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 30 Jan. 2020
• How much dough does one need, even in Manhattan, where hourly parking for over two hours at some hellhole of a downtown garage can be $75?
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 4 Jan. 2017
• There are a lot of young, smart, ambitious people moving to those left-wing hellholes, for some reason.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 25 Aug. 2019
• How this fits into the space concept thing isn’t super-clear (the song lines up with planet Ultra, which must be a real hellhole).
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
• Nolan’s premise that everything is dark and ironic leads him to embrace dystopia, the symbolic hellhole that is Gotham City.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
• This was always something of a bold opinion, given that Twitter has–for a very long time—been a joyless hellhole.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 July 2022
• My parents retired to a total hellhole, not so much as a nearby playground, that requires a four-hour flight.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• Trying to make sure the inner city kids that grew up in my hometown can have a brighter future and look at me as inspiration to get out of the hellhole of the inner city.
  — Faith Karimi and Wayne Sterling, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
• Yet when faced with the vehicle that can take her and her child, Holly, away from this hellhole, June makes a surprising decision.
  — refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
• For one thing, New York run amok is the template for the current hysteria, a kind of wish in some quarters, that posits America’s cities as unspeakable hellholes.
  — Thomas Beller, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• That is what drives them nuts because if that means that the United States is not the worst racist hellhole for nonwhite people, then their whole value system gets exploded.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2018
• Covering the world’s wars and political hellholes, there have been many—some famous, many little-known.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
• Yet, despite this doomsday Armageddon hellhole that feels like The Handmaid’s Tale come to life, there have been small victories...and those are actually big deals.
  — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 24 May 2019
• But people like Tucker Carlson spend their time saying that America is a hellhole, awash in immigrants.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2021
• The series’ angle, essentially, is that classic-era Hollywood was a hellhole, a place where vast amounts of money and fame were dangled in front of talented, shrewd, and shameless people at the price of their souls.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
• And in that notorious hellhole, Daniels — who was never convicted of anything — rotted away year after year.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• Drudgery backgrounds any workplace sitcom, but the catering comedy dug a special career hellhole.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• The game cemented the aesthetic of an emerging franchise—a decaying post-industrial hellhole where not even blood was brightly colored—and the design template for a nascent platform.
  — Jake Muncy, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2016

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024