hellfire

Example Sentences

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At the helm was Osbourne, who channeled the darker forces within this music with hypnotic wild-child abandon, as if he were possessed by the hellfire spirit.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 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

“She really in her work has gone through hellfire and has come out the other side — which means, as I say, she’s not to be underestimated,” Ms. Reade said.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2021

She’d already finished most of the dragon’s mouth—its lips snarled back to reveal huge razor teeth around an explosion of hellfire.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older