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
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’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
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