infernal
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Some tourists waited under a pine tree while others hurried up the Via dei Fori Imperiali, wearing hats or carrying umbrellas to escape the infernal sun.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
While “Is God Is” makes no overt references to modern politics or social mores, Harris’ writing is in constant conversation with our uniquely infernal times.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
They constituted hitting a new bottom, a new and infernal, face-lit-by-flames bottom, in world communications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Its three suns move and align in such a way as to create regular but random apocalyptic events, from infernal heat to sudden ice ages to gravitational vortexes, that destroy the civilization again and again.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
A pair of women on bicycles pull off the road and gape at the truck as its passes: some infernal lorry sent to blight their town.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Vocabulary lists containing infernal
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