How to Use the hell in a Sentence

the hell

noun

• Find the book again—what the hell? Time for a road trip!
  — Katie Barsotti, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• And if a horror flick isn’t scary, what the hell is the point?
  — Longreads, 27 Sep. 2024
• Who knows what the hell this guy might turn into for the Jays.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
• Ryan… who the hell knows what’s going on with that kid.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 18 July 2024
• And that is a mystery there – what the hell happened to her?
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024
• And the guy looked at me like, ‘What the hell is happening here?
  — Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2024
• So, what the hell are the Avengers going to do against a thousand Kangs?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
• What the hell is happening to the rule of law in this country?
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• For those of you wondering, Wait, what the hell is a ghost poop?
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Oct. 2024
• And people get upset and start yelling, what the hell is this crap?
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024
• Whoever came up with it shocked the hell out of me, that’s for sure.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
• For Gretchen, the hell of not knowing where her son is has ended.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• But why the hell would Belichick want to work for Fredo Spanos?
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
• And then […] oh my god, what the hell did that just blossom into?
  — Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
• To Napster the hell out of it, to ride roughshod and disrupt for the sake of disruption.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 July 2024
• As the lower courts’ confusion shows, no one seems to know what the hell that means.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
• But few knew of the hell Nicole endured behind closed doors at the hands of her husband.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
• But Cliff, who had one of the great voices of the classic rocksteady and reggae era, sings the hell out of it.
  — David Polansky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
• Where the hell did the false claim that Haitian immigrants are eating pets come from?
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 9 Sep. 2024
• Also: The less said about the bullpen and whatever the hell’s going on in left field, the better.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• Why put yourself through the hell of non-front-closure bras when there are so many styles to choose from?
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 28 Feb. 2024
• One of the biggest cliffhangers, though, was what the hell happened to Ashley?
  — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 19 July 2024
• How the hell does one even begin to put together a list of the best jackets of all time?
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2023
• But can’t have a pool or sauna or whatever the hell that is in the stadium.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• While that’s coalescing, toast a few thick slices of bread, and butter the hell out of them.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
• Fight back, support those who do, get the hell out of the way or prepare to defend yourself.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• What the hell was going on that people could turn like that on the people who’d been attacked?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
• What scares the hell out of me is what will happen when the next big earthquake happens and the towers fall and the power fails.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
• In that blissful blip between Christmas and New Year’s, things tend to finally slow the hell down.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 19 Dec. 2024
• Lioness has to move to the next explosive set piece, and Yellowstone has to figure out what the hell to do with the Duttons next.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025