hellacious

Example Sentences

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After stranding a leadoff walk in the top of the first with three-straight strikeouts, Ohtani switched from pitcher to hitter and unleashed a hellacious swing.

From Los Angeles Times

And surely the hellacious fire that destroyed the palace altered the mural colors from which the illustrator worked.

From Los Angeles Times

She “barged in” when Rasmussen answered, and found herself in a struggle she compared to “a hellacious bar fight.”

From Los Angeles Times

There’s nothing to-the-manor-born about him; one of the book’s liveliest chapters chronicles his time working on a Canadian railroad line, sweating elbow-to-elbow with ex-convicts and other misfits with whom he developed camaraderie and a hellacious work ethic.

From Los Angeles Times

A younger married pair named Nick and Honey come over for the world’s longest and most hellacious nightcap.

From New York Times