Example sentences for: hellish

How can you use “hellish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But reforms led to more direct state supervision, more prison units were built, and the prison became less like a huge collection of hellish sardine cans.

  • This story is told well in Chernow's chapter "Captains of Erudition," which describes the hellish wrangling between Rockefeller and the free-spending William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago.

  • Hundreds of thousands of dollars in psychiatric bills later, I can speak about this with limited objectivity; the point is that, although very young when taken from my primary caregivers--my grandparents--I recall both the joy of my years with them and the hellish trauma of separation more vividly than much of what happened to me last week.

  • Terrified children are running down a hellish highway that disappears behind them into a smoky vanishing point, a highway that seems to run through a barren and burning plain.

  • He is a product of the hellish post-Stalinist bureaucracy, a place where betrayal was a much better career strategy than principle.


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