hell on earth

Example Sentences

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One described the night as "hell on earth", and another as "a scene from a dystopian film".

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

The delay, and the process in general, has been "hell on earth", she says, leaving her "broken".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

The parents of missing student Jack O'Sullivan say they are living in "hell on earth" without him.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024

Three decades after a national publication probed the city’s ills, we gathered a panel of Angelenos to ponder the age-old question: Is Los Angeles hell on earth?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2024

It was going to be hard to give him up once this hell on earth was over.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez