sure as hell

Example Sentences

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"I wouldn't want him to suffer the way I know others have suffered, and I sure as hell wouldn't want him to go to a foreign country on his own and do it," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

“You should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I’ll give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. I sure as hell didn’t.”

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025

“We don’t know where we’re going, what we’re doing. … We’re about to lose our Mayberry, but we’re sure as hell going to fight for it.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2023

“If they don’t have enough patients to make an inpatient unit viable, they sure as hell don’t have enough to make a hospital-at-home program viable.”

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

When he wasn’t in the hallways at school, he didn’t have that toothpaste-commercial smile plastered all over him, and he sure as hell didn’t have that hopeful, the-world-is-an-amazing-place-so-let’s-get-out-there- and-love-life glimmer in his eyes either.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley