hellfire

Example Sentences

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Army Apache attack helicopters, which are equipped with Hellfire missiles, have long had the mission of striking Iranian mine-laying boats from Gulf states in the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Eddie’s death is likely to reverberate with Dustin in the upcoming season, who is seen in the trailer wearing his Hellfire Club T-shirt.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

On Thursday morning at a riverside park in a Taipei suburb, troops practised re-fueling and re-arming Black Hawk and Apache helicopters with Hellfire and Stinger missiles supplied by the US.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

General Donahue was the commander on the ground on Aug. 29 when an American MQ-9 Reaper drone shot a Hellfire missile at a white Toyota Corolla in a neighborhood near the airport.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2024

Hellfire raining down on her out of the sky and she held it off with a brolly.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein