How to Use hellish in a Sentence

hellish

adjective

• The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
• We've been having hellish weather lately.
• The red glow of the restaurant’s neon sign gives the tableau a hellish cast.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
• The tone of the music is dark and hellish mixed with silly and prankish.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
• High school has always been hellish, at least for some of us.
  — Carol Mangis, PCMAG, 3 June 2022
• The flames rose and were reflected in the clouds, turning the sky a hellish scarlet.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
• Elsewhere in the hellish scene were the bodies of fourth graders whose parents were friends of his.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 26 May 2022
• The idea of attempting to draw suitors in this heat is hellish.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
• Being a child is hellish, but the examples of the adults all around her seem even worse.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• That tight bear hug eight weeks ago is now entwined with some of the most hellish aspects of this war.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Hole pupfish has paddled back from the brink in a hellish desert domain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• That set the stage for a hellish weekend, when, amid a severe heat wave, wildfires broke out.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Just then came the hellish noise of an engine, and a motorcycle rose over a crest.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2023
• The cycle keeps going, like some type of hellish Groundhog Day.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2021
• Iran, by contrast, is so hellish that its people were happy the U.S. won.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• Their name may have hellish connotation, but the Speed Demons got their start in church.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Sep. 2021
• The fighting took place on the hellish Maeda Escarpment in April 1945.
  — Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2022
• By contrast, to be young in 2020 was—for most American teenagers—rather hellish.
  — Niall Ferguson, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Pricing and Which One to Buy Dodge offers few options for its hellish coupe.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2023
• During that hellish stretch from late March to mid-April of 2020, hundreds were dying each day.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Oh, and there’s a hellish shadow sea filled with killer flying monsters.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• But the couple’s Virginia Eden turned hellish soon after Mrs. Kyle gave birth.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Others in the crowd gesture at him to hurry, the hellish sky behind them orange-red.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• HOAs were created, as are most hellish things, with the best of intentions.
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• And while the show may have now ended, Ellis isn't finished with his hellish workouts.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 23 Apr. 2022
• Looking out at that audience of people who had a hellish time for weeks on end.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
• Twenty-five others were shot and even more were injured during that hellish scene of guns and blood.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 July 2023
• One of those moons, Io, is a hellish world that is the most volcanically active in the solar system.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• History, hellish events, and high speeds are the key ingredients that make the 24 Hours of Le Mans the world's greatest sports-car race.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 21 Aug. 2021
• Only now in Ireland could the thought emerge to preserve such a hellish place as a way of coming to grips with an unsavory past.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024