infernal

Example Sentences

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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

For now, all scientists can do is monitor the infernal proceedings—and hope that their observations will, eventually, reveal the secrets behind this novel show of volcanic force.

From National Geographic • Dec. 19, 2023

Making him the moral compass was one of the pillars of wanting to see a child in this infernal situation of having just lost his father and having to judge his mother.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2023

Judging from his comments to his associates, his remarks about Chicago’s infernal July weather, and his general aversion to racing in “the West,” Riddle was almost certainly not considering the Arlington offer.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand