hellfire
Example Sentences
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Perhaps that heat he feels is not the warmth of success, but the hellfire of the demon’s fury.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2025
He, like anyone else here, knew firsthand about the hellfire that raised them in north Omaha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023
The ancients thought Earth’s center was hollow: the home of Hades or hellfire, or a realm of tunnels that heated ocean waters.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2022
“As a teenager in the 1980s, I thought Christianity was either the boring middle class at prayer, or it was Jimmy Swaggart’s hellfire Pentecostalism,” Mr. Dreher told me.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2020
When I woke, the city of New York was consumed with burning hellfire.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
