hellscape

Example Sentences

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The film offers nothing like an insight into social problems nor any solution to the hellscape in which these folks live.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Following up 2020's Doom: Eternal, The Dark Ages plunges player character the Doom Slayer into a Medieval hellscape filled with demonic enemies and an arsenal of frankly ridiculous weapons.

From BBC • May 11, 2025

We're all tired after this hellscape of a year, and making choices more complicated than eating pie or cake just seems like a lot of extra effort.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

He is not capable of imagining a world outside his own weird, smoky, pet-munching interior hellscape.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2024

I know this is weird, but I make my bed every single day, even though the rest of my room is a hellscape of paper and laundry and books and clutter.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli