hellish

Example Sentences

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I’ve been doing daily art journalism for 45 years — 36 of them at The Times, with 2,195 bylines — so I’m about to find out whether this quitting will also be hellish.

From Los Angeles Times

Sections of charred scaffolding fell from the burning apartment blocks in hellish scenes late on Wednesday, as flames inside apartments sometimes belched out through windows into a night sky that glowed orange.

From Barron's

It smells hellish too, like rotting meat on a sweltering day, which magnetizes tons of insects that scatter its spores.

From Salon

After more than a week of hellish conditions in Khartoum, they finally fled by bus to Egypt, hoping their ordeal would soon be over.

From Washington Post

Torn by Jupiter’s gravity, Io today is a hellish landscape of volcanic eruptions and is the most active body in the solar system.

From Scientific American