How To Use Hellish In A Sentence

He paints a hellish picture in which sea and sky become indistinguishable and the men battle for survival.
It must be hellish for people who care about the teams on a personal level, because no matter how good your school's team is, they have to win six games in a row against the best teams in the country, amped up to play you.
He suddenly missed the hellish heat and the blinding sun of Orlando.
He lives almost entirely in the past, remembering life before the war and during his hellish time in a concentration camp.
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare

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The early-evening fog was rolling in on a hellish breeze. Three Stages of Amazement
Don't listen to him - he reckons that every city is a hellish cesspit of hatred and evil.
Scientists have found many planets like HD 209458 b – huge gas giants that orbit hazardously close to their stars and have hellishly hot, poisonous atmospheres.
The up arrows are illuminated in white for angelic heaven and the down arrows glower red for hellish damnation!
I happen to know every detail of the hellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgias. The Thirty-Nine Steps
The wind increased blow harder and harder in a hellish gale that never seemed to cease.
According to a recent profile in the New York Times Magazine, physicist Freeman Dyson escaped from his stereotypically hellish English boarding school by: reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which gave him his first sense of America as a more "exciting place where all sorts of weird things could happen," and Jules Verne's comic science-fiction descriptions of "more crazy Americans" bound for the moon. Archive 2009-04-01
A hellish landscape of fire, smoke and death formed a backdrop for a bunch of kids a long way from home who were just doing their job.
They emerged on stage bathed in a hellish red glow and launched into a set astonishing in its ferociousness and intensity.
Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. Instinct With Hellish Life
The Marianas actually had a labor shortage, and had to import workers, and yet they were still working in hellish conditions. Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No”
I walked over a barbed-wire covered hill, through a deserted trench, and saw the hellish landscape.
Either way it's a sublime cover: yellow gothic lettering above a motorcade that looks like it's emerging through the luminescent smoke from some hellish underworld.
But, in the immediate aftermath of this hellish disaster, I don't know how long the American reporters are going to stay or how long the Arab reporters are going to stay.
hellish weather
I had such a hellish time on holiday in Magaluf - the Spanish resort is just full of drunk British, German and Dutch people.
I've seen people experience the most hellish things and what gets them on the right road again is love and friendship and care and concern. Times, Sunday Times
Marines and soldiers alike found themselves trapped in an experience as hellish as any of the war. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
A writer for New Republic said Hillary Clinton is a hellish housewive. Uncovering Elections
It is difficult to see how you can imagine anything more hellish than the idea that the world is already a cruel, dystopic nightmare.
Study the groups and there are some hellish places to be. The Sun
Yes, what you call Belgian atrocities were hellish; but 'twasn't that, and as long as they fought fair that was all I cared about. Tommy
How many countries do you think actually have it all, the whole hellish quintuplet of war, famine, disease, poverty and bad leadership all at the same time? Luso Mnthali: When Movie Stars Were Super Heroes
CALLEBS: CNN military analyst, Retired General James "Spider" Marks, said the president detailed how Iraq plunged into what he calls hellish chaos. CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2007
And it isn't just that so many of its key scenes are set in dark, dreary places: a hellish prison, a bleak factory, the sewers of Paris.
The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country.
She watched impassively while he undamped me, and I took a few staggering and damned painful steps, catching at that hellish wheel for support. Fiancée
Now, after more than two and a half years of war, we on the other side know that the "phantom" is a grim and bloody reality, for we have known the hellish horrors which it perpetrates not only in battle, but in the peaceful villages and country. The Prussian Mind
Red bricks are all hellishly good values if you trust to the roster of ads but we’ll save up ourselves and nab what’s nicest and boskiest of timber trees in the nebohood. Finnegans Wake
The firelight flickered over the daemon's armor, giving him an extremely hellish quality.
In contrast, though, the foghorn blast from a lighthouse is one of the most hellish things on Earth.
Several blinding nuclear blasts ensued, covering the rock with dust and flame in a hellish inferno.
She was lost in a horrible, hellish world, and the only person she could trust right now was Zach.
Airports are hellish enough places at the best of times. Times, Sunday Times
This promises to be a hard-hitting play from a news correspondent filing reports from a hellish war zone.
We've had a hellish time lately.
Of all the 9/11 pictures, none capture the nightmare quality of this day more than the sight of the falling buildings and their debris—that gigantic cloud of blackness rolling, it appears, in hellish pursuit of the crowds desperate to outrace it. A Dark Day's Enduring Life
We take you beyond the confines of starships and space stations to Starfleet Academy, an alien colony, a desert planet, swamps, an icy planet, and even to a hellish realm.
I had a big row once with a Buddhist who played down the hellishness of suffering by... but no, forget the Buddhist, and forget me too. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
At the end of this hellish journey, Japan Rail made my father pay for two more tickets.
At that depth the temperature reached 40C with a hellish 98 per cent humidity. Times, Sunday Times
He whistled tunelessly as he went, his easy gait and his casual manner all belying the hellish company he was keeping. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Sure, you could be choker on the putting green, or you could have a hellish slice off the tee.
Come to think of it, there could hardly be a better theme for Rome than heaven and hell - it's a city of heavenly buildings, art and ancient ruins, but it suffers from hellish traffic and endless crowds.
A single tear ran down her face, shining bright in the hellish sky, reflecting the nauseating light from the street lamp.
Dreams in which Billy wore a Postal Service uniform and grinningly accompanied the mailman on his hellishly appointed rounds. Baby Games
She's been likened to Lorena Bobbitt, a hellish housewife, described as witchy, a she-devil, anti - male, a strip teaser. CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008
The one-dimensional cheerful cheeky chappie/sassy brassy tart with a heart stereotypes are no more representative of milliions of people who happen to be working class than the constantly miserable and hellishly afflicted Walford locals. Charlie Brooker | Complaining about the lack of realism in EastEnders is like moaning that Monster Munch crisps don't taste of monsters
It might be a similar size to Earth but it is also the most hellish place imaginable. Times, Sunday Times
Many have had hellish experiences. Times, Sunday Times
It's so colourless, so dull, so hellish here, a very poor substitute for what I've lost.
The Dutch have never forgotten how desperately they fought during eight hellish days, and the veterans can never forget the kindness and generosity of the people who shared what little food they had, and tended their wounds.
The game of war brings death, and the devil has ensured that this has been a hellishly long game.
I wouldn't want her mangy little dog to suffer an inferno of hellish fury.
In time, the hellish landscape of the high South lost its fearful interest for Adriana and became monotonous, a distance to be covered with a minimum of pain.
I am just a spectator, which is pretty hellish but does give me an overall view. The Clique
Kate could hardly remember now the dry rigid pallor of the heat, when the whole earth seemed to crepitate viciously with dry malevolence: like memory gone dry and sterile, hellish. The Plumed Serpent
An exhausted jumble of execrations directed at himself, the hellish place, and everything within it ran through his mind.
The slow, dismal tolling of bells; the masked and muffled familiars; the Dominicans carrying their horrid flag, followed by the penitents behind a huge cross; the condemned ones, barefoot, clad in painted caps and the repulsive sanbenito; next the effigies of accused offenders who had escaped by flight; then, the bones of dead culprits in black coffins painted with flames and other hellish symbols; and, finally, the train closing with a host of priests and monks. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The repair works on Eagles Bridge juncture and the section connecting it to three other main city arteries caused hellish traffic jams during the week.
However, the view from my desk is virtually non-existent, my email inbox didn't transfer properly, the tea in the drinks machine is completely undrinkable and the journey home was hellish.
A hellish day - it pours down with rain non-stop, turning the paddocks into mud and making our jobs difficult and dirty, it can be difficult for the animals too.
If there is one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, when instead we should become as victims burning at the stake, signaling each other through the flames. Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation
A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week.
It was a hellish experience. Times, Sunday Times
Under cover of darkness our hero figuratively sneaks onto the White House lawn and retrieves those long lost medals, earned over that hellish 4-month span.
Disturbing and hellish narratives pour forth from the paintings: gatherings of men where the promise of violence lingers, scenes of orgiastic cannibalism, and lone individuals who fall prey to ‘the mob’.
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
It is a hellish scene, all the more so for the faint red glow cast by the infra-red cameras. Times, Sunday Times
Then the Devil suddenly turned and looked straight in our direction and pointed right at us and started laughing a ghastly hellish devil laugh.
Things went from bad to worse to awful to hellish in minutes. Times, Sunday Times
I do it all the time, especially in word processing, when I want to transplant a sentence from one location to another in one of my hellishly long essays.
This valley of hellish heat and human misery is also a place of stark, sublime beauty.
Army holding cell, the first stop in what he described as a hellish four-month journey through the U.S. military prison system in Iraq. Hullabaloo
The weather's dismal and the light grey and the landscape reminds you of everything that's hellish about the country.
Whether heavenly or hellish, the afterlife presents moviemakers with a problem: eternity.
The public likes to bemoan a difficult and wildly diva, hellish in rehearsal, magnanimous on stage, humble in the face of her art.
Isolation is an evil feeling, and I've had some hellish weekends lately.
A fireworks explosion set off a huge blaze in central Lima late on Saturday, killing at least 240 people and turning a busy shopping street into a hellish scene.
We had decided to treat ourselves to one last night of romantic excess before knuckling down to interminable schedules of hellish revision. LOVE YOU MADLY
It shone brightly in the hellish sky, reflecting the nauseating light from the street lamp.
Never have more than one person working on the same function, or even class if possible, because combining code will become a hellish inferno of terrible pain.
Perhaps the eeriest insight into the designer's final weeks was a dress imprinted with a scene from Bosch's triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights," which shows the artist's hellish conception of the afterlife. McQueen's Angels and Demons
His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiendlike malice. Chapter 24
Overhead, a blinding red pulse burned bright before hurtling into the wall and bringing down rocks and fire in a hellish burst of light and sound and crushing pressure.
I had a flash of my uncles working the woks in a hellishly hot summer kitchen.
The harrowing sequence at El Morro prison carries us into a squalor that would be hellish, but for the fact that Arenas is embosomed by his fellow inmates as the only one who can write their letters.
It's always been done this way, it would be hellish complicated to make a change and, besides, the only people who can make the decision have a vested interest in the status quo.
After his hellish entrancement, Declan held a singular hatred for witches. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
The hellish day was designed to root out the weak and weak-minded, confirmed coach Brian Noble.
Unaware of what was in store, a passenger ship had left Kochi for Lakshadweep on May 3 and, after several hours of hellish miseries suffered by the passengers at the hostile sea, it came back.
Los Angeles, October 13, 2008--Residents flee a newly hellish landscape in California's San Fernando Valley during a fast-moving brush fire.
ANYONE who has been stuck in an endless airport check-in queue knows flying can be a hellish experience. The Sun
His eyes gleamed hellishly in his red face: but the voice was rich, modulated, booming and kindly.
The beautiful outdoor cinematography is a stark contrast to the hellish situations they find themselves in, while the naturalistic acting style lends more authenticity to the characters. Top 10 Movies of 2009 » Scene-Stealers
Nearby rock vaporized instantly with explosive force, creating a hellish chamber of radiation and overwhelming pressure several hundred yards in diameter.
And just what are we looking for in this hellish landscape?
Shocking, infernal, hellish, unendingly nasty - it's all sounding more and more like my last vacation in Paris.
He describes their hellish home of hidden evil upon evil, windy wolf-dens, cliffs, and skies of dark air and black rain.
It arrived in the mail a few weeks later, and I opened it up only to receive a hellish, ghastly, devastating shock.
Every sheep within two miles Is nailing me accurately down With its hellishly-shaven starved-priest expression.
The king and commander of this hellish squadron is here described, [1.] Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
From the _algarroba_ bean an intoxicating drink is made, called _ang - min_, and then yells, hellish sounds and murderous blows inspire terror in the paleface guest. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
It was better, they said, to starve at home than underground, toiling in a hellish mineshaft. Times, Sunday Times
The air he inhaled transformed into a hellish inferno, scorching his lungs.
When our Heaven-favored nation was assaulted, and eight millions of her subjects, armed from her own armories, rose in hellish purpose to slay her, and unknown thousands through all our midst stood ready to her burial, Abraham Lincoln was called to her defence. A Discourse Delivered on the Occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of President Lincoln
Nearly 1.5 million Acholi people had been forced into hellish camps for protection from the terror of Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army. Maria Rodale: Eat Trash, Save the Planet
We know that there are many beings in the world today living in hellish states and suffering terribly every moment of their lives.
Lightning forked down from the sky, and thunder roared in sympathy moments later, adding to the hellish scene.
Chicks and water retention is a hellish confounding business. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 5 March
Yet I entertained such an abhorrence of the savage wretches that I have been speaking of, and of the wretched, inhuman custom of their devouring and eating one another up, that I continued pensive and sad, and kept close within my own circle for almost two years after this: when I say my own circle, I mean by it my three plantations - viz. my castle, my country seat (which I called my bower), and my enclosure in the woods: nor did I look after this for any other use than an enclosure for my goats; for the aversion which nature gave me to these hellish wretches was such, that I was as fearful of seeing them as of seeing the devil himself. Robinson Crusoe
But the tattoo drew her focus to the middle of the design and there the two devilish eyes stared down upon her with hellish fire.
Events of the past fortnight suggest escaping our hellish past might prove harder than the optimists imagined.
A hellish din of clattering tableware and shrill voices exchanging loud opinions and boring stories. Times, Sunday Times
This, despite my recurring nightmare of sudden and certain death in a hellish frozen gorge. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than serving time in hellish Tent City, Arpaio allows his special guests to serve their sentences in private, climate-controlled cells at the Mesa Hilton. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Crazy Joe Arpaio Sh*t
The brain that first conceived the thought must burst in anguish, the heart that pulsated with hellish joy must cease to beat, the hand that pulled the first laniard must be palsied, before the wicked act begun in Charleston on the 13th of April, 1861, is avenged. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865
His battle-call pealed even above the hellish din. A Victor of Salamis
Obama getting an audience with the Vicar of Christ, who invited him to rethink his hellish beliefs on the "life issues". Outrage in Malaysia
CALLEBS: CNN military analyst, retired General James "Spider" Marks said the president detailed how Iraq plunged into what he calls hellish chaos. CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2007
Rescuers continued the search for survivors amid hellish scenes, while hospitals struggled to cope with the thousands of injured. The Sun
The public would view the woman's affair as a sad, desperate attempt to gain some comfort in the hellish life her brute of a husband had imposed on her.
It arrived in the mail a few weeks later, and I opened it up only to receive a hellish, ghastly, devastating shock.
She thought upon the day as a hellish nightmare that she was at last waking from. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The grim reality of this hellish landscape pervaded every aspect of work and leisure.
The description of his journey includes sequences in Swindon's town centre, around the station and in the station itself, which is transformed in Christopher's mind into a place of hellish noise and confusion.
CALLEBS: CNN military analyst Retired General James "Spider" Marks said the president detailed how Iraq plunged into what he calls hellish chaos. CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2007
It erupted into a ball of flame and exploded in a huge hellish ball of smoke and flame, which consumed another car.
Medics warned the hellish conditions, which she likened to a disaster movie, are being mirrored in overstretched hospitals up and down the country. The Sun
Saint Austin erected a _cross_ and _altar_, whereon he offered the _holy eucharist_, by which he countercharmed those hellish fiends, and broke their haunts. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827
Diaz saw when he went up the Mexican teocalli with Cortes, and which he describes as a hellish instrument, made with skins of great serpents; and which, when it was struck, gave a loud and melancholy sound, that could be heard at two leagues 'distance. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
Why am I not in this same hellish place? Times, Sunday Times
TRY to decentre yourself and put your mother first at all costs, otherwise what will seem like a scripted drama could easily turn into an unscripted, unreviewed, unwatched hellish nightmare. [Help] Most Recent Posts
When I returned to the time when I had picked up the pistol, all I could see from the undertime was a shimmering flow of energy and a sea of hot glass fused into strange shapes and emitting a hellish glare quite discernible from the undertime. Timegod's World
I know these people are hellish to deal with, but have you stressed to them that letting their dog run free is against the law rather than just being a nuisance to you?
By what hellish witchcraft had she been insnared into the degrading alliance recorded in this miserable scrap of paper? Aurora Floyd. A Novel
Dante places him in the lowest round of the ninth or last of the hellish circles, where he is eternally "champed" by Satan, Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
It might be a similar size to Earth but it is also the most hellish place imaginable. Times, Sunday Times
In a way that makes this job even harder than some of the hellish jobs I've had in the past.
With huge square towers linked by thick walkways, it stands on a slight eminence and is emphatically hellish.
But I didn't, thank God, and as any of you who have read my other memoirs will have guessed, I'd not have been within three thousand miles of Harper's Ferry, or blasted Brown, but for the ghastliest series of mischances: three hellish coincidences - three, mark you! THE NUMBERS
I find it at times joyous and at others, the most hellish job in the world.
People are shouting and swearing through the hellish fug and everyone seems to be called Jack.
` Hellish places, by all accounts, rations a Siberian moujik wouldn't touch, and less civilised behaviour than you'd meet in the Congo, but I'm told there's no education like it - a lifetime's trainin 'in knavery packed into six years. Watershed
It seemed to stretch on for miles, going slightly uphill into a long corner then heading up, and away to whatever hellish dimension existed as the faeries' foul home.
It's so colourless, so dull, so hellish here, a very poor substitute for what I've lost.
The chicken, carrots, and onions had marinated for four hours in a hellish brew of red habañero mash and distilled capsicum extract.
Who else could have dreamt up such a hellish method for assembling furniture other than those with a deep loathing of their fellow humans? Times, Sunday Times
It is a miracle that her flimsy frame has been able to survive the extremes of weather, utter penury and the cruel sneers of her snobbish compatriots during her hellish ordeal.
A hellish din of clattering tableware and shrill voices exchanging loud opinions and boring stories. Times, Sunday Times
Neither did they notice the hellish, dark purple light that briefly shone from the skin of the Destroyer. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Michael Leza’s Review Forum
The answer came as the wickedly bitter temperatures turned the freezing rain into a hellish mix of snow and hail.
So Re 16: 10, "the seat (rather, throne) of the beasts," in hellish parody of God's throne. four and twenty elders -- Greek, "the four and twenty (or as one oldest manuscript, 'twenty-four') elders": the well-known elders [Alford]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
To either side, a liquescent nightmare of swirling hellish flame spun round them as the Widow settled ever deeper into the maelstrom.
They marched all day, passing through a hellish, wrecked landscape.
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A hellish din of clattering tableware and shrill voices exchanging loud opinions and boring stories. Times, Sunday Times
Each run involved a journey through the hellish smoke and back, but David's heroism had paid off.
But how does a woman best handle that hellish and uncertain time when her husband is still shopping for the supplements?
The horse is a hefty great beast at 17.1 hands and hellish strong.
With its pizza boa paint and racing addenda, I thought this car was going to be hellish to drive.
Erinnys conscientiae, a hellish fury; it is called vermis conscientiae, the worm of conscience. The Lord's Prayer
The two men bonded over their hellish experiences and became instant pals. The Sun
They'd had a hellish crossing of the Forth Bridge: commuter traffic crawling citywards. Strip Jack
War is hell, but can be made more or less hellish.
Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. Instinct With Hellish Life
And as they will attest, once information is out there it's hellish tricky to take it back.
The atmosphere in Washington is hellish.
Things went from bad to worse to awful to hellish in minutes. Times, Sunday Times
The leatherback frogmen of the NYPD Scuba Squad patrol a hellish world beyond noir, where body parts abound, the water's filthy, and mob victims wear concrete shoes.
For almost a century, industrial chemists have had to rely on hellishly high temperatures and gas pressures to cleave the tenacious chemical bond that holds together each two-atom nitrogen molecule.
It was a devils 'anthem, glorifying hellishness -- suggestive of the gnashing of a million teeth, and the whicker of drawn blades -- more shuddersome and mean than the wind of a winter's night. In The Time Of Light
She's been likened to a Lorena Bobbitt, a hellish housewife, described as witchy, a she-devil, anti-male, a strip teaser. CNN Transcript May 22, 2008
I overnighted it and then began the hellish torment of Jeff from Reliance as I repeatedly harassed him about sending the armor out.
If you've ever seen a more terrifying beard than this, then you are most certainly a liar, because there is no beard more frightening than this hellish monstrosity.
I'm moving offices in four days, to a hellish corner with no windows and very, very high desk dividers.
Slippery slope R , Were you busy hogtying some bewildered ingenue and feasting through a hellish 24 hours of pleasure and damnation………. A mistletoe moment « raincoaster
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