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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.

  • Back down the hellish road from the cape, and due west, is the isolated beach Platja Binimella.


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