hell
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
"I think of myself more as a diplomat. That's the kind of people who tell you to go to hell in such a way you look forward to the trip."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Is this hell, purgatory or just a cosmic punchline?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But if she were offered $26 million by an AI company, she said, “I’d say, hell yeah, and live instead of struggle.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Forbes’ top editor was fired over one hell of a gift.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
"What a hell of a reason for sitting with any one. If you're tight, go to bed. Go on to bed."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"So this is glamour, people are walking past saying I've seen that bodysuit in M&S, I must get one... but it was all fine, there was no fire - only in the nine hells."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
It’s going to be one hell of an offseason, and there’s nothing like hells of offseasons.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
On August 4th, we watched from our separate hells as a 40,000-foot cloud the color of bruised flesh collapsed over the ridge west of Greenville.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021
In Westeros the septons spoke of seven hells and seven heavens, but the Seven Kingdoms and their gods were far away.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
