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

The online opinions didn’t stop at hellfire, however.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Lisa Bryn Rundle, host of the CBC podcast "Uncover: Satanic Panic," calls that book "Michelle Remembers," a now discredited memoir: "the spark that set off the hellfire."

From Salon • May 29, 2022

Clara Schumann writes with a loveliness that Mahler underscores with an anxious darkness; Mayer’s “Erlkönig” churns with drama, but with more shape than Schubert’s hellfire.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

He’s completely covered in clay except for the streaks on his cheeks from crying and the hellfire green eyes that are drilling into me.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson