Example sentences for: hellish

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

  • 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.

  • For non-epopts: reading these is like reading Jane Austen--with every so often a hellish sea battle or shipwreck.

  • Another liberal British paper, the Guardian , led its front page with a story beginning: "The Serbs did not want us to see it, but there was no mistaking the hellish fires raging in Kosovo yesterday as ethnic Albanian villages were torched by Serbian security forces."

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

  • 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.


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