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How to use hellish in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Hellish means infernal, related or similar to hell. Example: “I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.”

Examples of hellish by meaning

adjectiveCausing great pain, discomfort or distress.

  • I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

More sentences with hellish

  • We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!From the entry landfall
  • But be warned: the full, hellish fury of the pyrocene has yet to arrive.2021 August 28, Graham Lawton, “The dawn of the pyrocene”, in New Scientist, page 24. From the entry Pyrocene
  • Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name.”2012, Maya Angelou, The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou. From the entry call out of one's name
  • It is going to be more deathening, more hellish or heavenish.2010, Chogyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom. From the entry deathen
  • Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode.”1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry abode
  • Bethesda’s jank made a PvP-centric experience hellish.2019, Patricia Hernandez, After the backlash, Bethesda is on a long quest to redeem Fallout 76, Polygon. From the entry jank
  • During those three hellish days at Gettysburg, General Robert E.2017, Alexander Theroux, Einstein's Beets, page 514. From the entry indisposition
  • Hellish as it is for an employee to feel Galotti's wrath, being in his good book is no picnic, either.1997, Spy, page 54. From the entry good book
  • Though I have hellish aches about Cid & all; I feel pretty much an idiot, now feeling the pinch, etc.1980, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, George F. Butterick, Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence, →ISBN. From the entry fugg
  • Like every day this hellish summer, someone will come to infuse me with four hours with amphotericin, a weed-killer somewhat effective against cryptococcal meningitis.1989 April 15, Richard F. Tremblay, “Two Days”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry infuse
  • For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry incarnate

Meaning of hellish

  1. adjective Infernal, related or similar to hell.
  2. adjective Causing great pain, discomfort or distress.

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Questions about hellish in a sentence

How do you use hellish in a sentence?
Hellish is used as an adjective. For example: “I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.”
What is a short sentence with hellish?
“Bethesda’s jank made a PvP-centric experience hellish.”
What does hellish mean?
Hellish means infernal, related or similar to hell.

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