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How to use heck in a sentence

40 example sentences · interjection, noun, verb

Heck means hell. Example: “Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.”

Examples of heck by meaning

interjectionHell.

  • Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.

nounHell.

  • You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
  • "And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 57

More sentences with heck

  • He's a heck of a party-thrower, I will join the party together.From the entry heck of a
  • I could eat the heck out of some spaghetti.From the entry out of
  • Geez, that was one heck of a week.From the entry geez
  • Elevators make me throw the heck up.From the entry the heck
  • What the heck are you doing?From the entry the heck
  • Heck, I was sitting on bones; I didn't have the padding she had.2022, Larry Lee Rhoton, The Treasure Map, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry wiggle worm
  • Tell you what you wanna hear but never follow thru, heck!2021 December 14, Karen Kellock, UNDERHANDEDLY CLEVER, CHAMPION GUIDES, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry body count
  • Yes, it's rich, but heck—it's called Fat Tuesday for a reason!2018 October 1, Francine Segan, edited by Lucy Schaeffer, Pasta Modern: New & Inspired Recipes from Italy, ABRAMS, →ISBN. From the entry toothsome
  • Lawmaker, law enforcer and lawbreaker — that’s a heck of a résumé, and alliterative, too!2017 February 18, John Schwartz, “Tax Advice From Lawmakers Turned Lawbreakers”, in The New York Times. From the entry lawbreaker
  • I’ve been researching the heck out of it, so here’s the plan.2017, Anneliese Mackintosh, “Burns Night”, in So Happy It Hurts, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 21–22. From the entry Burns Night
  • “Why don’t you go live in Sweden and get the heck out of our country,” Mr.2016 September 4, Hiroko Tabuchi, “‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke”, in The New York Times. From the entry roll coal
  • Dumb money, which is a heck of a lot of investors, misses the mark on both sides.2014, Pamela Yellen, The Bank On Yourself Revolution, BenBella Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 27. From the entry dumb money
  • Heck, according to rumor Dwight Farris's doodle was hardly ever in his pants.2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, Brava Books, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry doodle
  • They knew how to doven, to pray, but they didn’t understand what the heck they were reading.2010, “Joshua (Joe) Gershman”, in Seemah C. Berson, editor, I Have a Story to Tell You, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press…. From the entry doven
  • Heck, it's not too hard to find incest themes in non-H these days.2006 March 26, Abraham Evangelista, “Re:Protecting the Children at anime cons”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet). From the entry siscon
  • Also what the heck are the origins of the words "Duatang" and "Touque"?2001 August 30, “Sundry Letters”, in Words: Woe & Wonder (forum), retrieved 12 Jul 2024. From the entry duotang
  • FCC officials demanded that Qwest tell them what the heck was going on.2000 May 1, David [Stephenson] Rohde, “Qwest's Behind-the-scenes Merger Maneuver”, in John Dix, editor, Network World, volume 17, number…. From the entry ratfink
  • What the heck has bigbadbowler done lately and where does he live?1999 July 6, NimBill, “Response to Nimbill - Part 2”, in alt.sport.bowling (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jun 2026. From the entry chickenpoop
  • What the heck is plasticard exactly and where do you get it?1997 October 9, Paul and Kristin Shoemaker, “plasticard???”, in rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet), retrieved 21 Feb 2022. From the entry plasticard
  • The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.1952, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volumes 16-19. From the entry pluperfect
  • What the heck is an unc game?2026 April 15, Keza MacDonald, The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026. From the entry AAVE
  • My auntie free haired for a very long time and no one talked anything about it, heck no one cares.2023 August 13, u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P, r/malaysia (Reddit post), archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023. From the entry freehair
  • If your idea of heaven is being surrounded by hecking good boys (and girls) then you've come to the right place.2021, Charlie Ellis, Love Is a Cockapoo: A Dog-tastic Celebration of the World’s Cutest Breed, Summersdale Publishers. From the entry heckin'
  • Part of the problem surrounding e-carceration is that most people don't know what the heck it refers to.2021 March 30, Vanessa Taylor, “E-carceration brings the oppression of the prison system into your own home”, in Mic, archived from the…. From the entry e-carceration
  • Heck, he could have been a Terminator.2020 January 24, Tim Spiers, James Pearce, “Even Jurgen Klopp says Adama Traore is ‘pretty much unplayable’ – but what is it actually like…. From the entry American footballer
  • Heck I might even be a diapersexual.2017 June 3, @SoggyChloe, Twitter. From the entry diapersexual
  • Heck, you should have seen him when I first opened the doughnut shop and he found out we served hot coffee.2015 November, Ali Brandon, chapter 3, in Plot Boiler (Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries; 5), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry pee in someone's Cheerios
  • Just shut the heck up, you stupidhead witch.2014, Sonali Dev, A Bollywood Affair, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry stupidhead
  • You are a hecking great wedding guest.2013, Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 535 Easy(ish) Steps, Grand Central Life & Style, →ISBN. From the entry hecking
  • Why, Zapruder the heck out of the invite of course.2010 January 18, Erica Sadun, “Zaprudering the invite: Obsessive fun with TUAW”, in TUAW. From the entry Zapruder
  • I say heck with it all and I'm getty Rummy.2009 February 14, msmomo2u, “ott; A New Word is Born”, in alt.support.stop-smoking (Usenet). From the entry bummy
  • But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.2005, Lisa Lees, Fragments of Gender, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry myn
  • Heck, the whole society seems stifled by Hufflepuffish values.2005 July 8, Beowulf Bolt, “Re: Raising god-level children”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet). From the entry Hufflepuffish
  • And when in the darn heckin heck is this fix?!2003 October 1, LAM, “Can the default attachment folder be changed in OEx6”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress…. From the entry heckin'
  • What the heck is that cryptobabble supposed to mean?2000 March 7, GMCarter, “CD8 CTLs Can't Do It Alone”, in misc.health.aids (Usenet). From the entry cryptobabble
  • (What the heck is this “gun lobby” anyway?1989 February 13, Kevin Harris, “Odd correlation”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page B2, column 5. From the entry Darth Vaderian
  • Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?1986 February 17, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic). From the entry extortion

Meaning of heck

  1. interjection Hell.
  2. verb To break, to destroy.
  3. verb To mess up.

Full definition of heck

Questions about heck in a sentence

How do you use heck in a sentence?
Heck is used as an interjection, noun and verb. For example: “Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.”
What is a short sentence with heck?
“What the heck are you doing?”
What does heck mean?
Heck means hell.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heck (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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