sure as hell
Example Sentences
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"I wouldn't want him to suffer the way I know others have suffered, and I sure as hell wouldn't want him to go to a foreign country on his own and do it," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
“We don’t know where we’re going, what we’re doing. … We’re about to lose our Mayberry, but we’re sure as hell going to fight for it.”
From Washington Times • Feb. 24, 2023
"All I know is that I sure as hell wouldn't want to be your enemy," Kuina tells him at one point.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2022
“People may have loved her or hated her, but they sure as hell watched her,” Stuart Schulberg, a “Today” producer, told The Times in 1977.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022
He didn’t know if this thing was Marburg, but it sure as hell looked like a filovirus, a thread virus.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
