Example sentences for: hellish

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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."

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

  • 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.


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