hellhound

Example Sentences

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Cerberus, the guard of the underworld, is featured with Hercules, a reference to the heroic demigod’s 12th and final labor which involved capturing the hellhound.

From Washington Times

For the Greeks, the Black Sea was the edge of the known world, inhabited by, as he writes in the book, “cannibals, hellhounds, man-slaughtering Amazons, dwarves mounted on flying cranes, Cyclopes, lice-eaters, and werewolves.”

From Washington Post

King James Rempe, the hellhound of pool, stalked the table with a werewolf’s hypnotic stare, his eyes at last alive, his mane bristling as though a full moon had finally broken through the midnight clouds.

From Washington Post

But Trump has unleashed the hellhounds, and it won’t be easy to stop.

From Washington Post

We were at the end of the night, our clunky old dishwasher was doing its hellhound whine—and I was wearing sweatpants!

From The Wall Street Journal