living hell

Example Sentences

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I put it on, I got in the shower, everything was fine, then when the chanting came on it scared the living hell out of me.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

"Families were failed. We have always said this inquiry is about learning lessons so that nobody should go through again what we did. This is a living hell," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2024

"It's not enjoyable any more, it's got to the stage where it's hard work and sometimes it's a living hell."

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2023

Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023

“You sure shot the living hell out of that gray thing,” Hassan said.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green