hellfire

Example Sentences

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He, like anyone else here, knew firsthand about the hellfire that raised them in north Omaha.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2023

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

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

But this orchestra has been playing it much longer — since its first concert, in 1842 — and most recently has been trained to give it a hellfire treatment under van Zweden’s baton.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 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