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Example sentences for "hell"

Lexicographically close words:
heliotropic; heliotropism; heliotype; helium; helix; helle; hellebore; hellers; hellish; hells
  1. The tramcar mounted slowly up the hill, where the ugly winter-grey masses of houses looked like a vision of hell that is cold and angular.

  2. The girl only stared at him with a black look in which flared an unfathomable hell of knowledge, and a certain impotence.

  3. The existence of the Church itself is an interpretation of the words: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

  4. Earth, heaven, and hell in turn have been thy tool, And him thou hast traduced thou wouldst befool!

  5. Speak low, for Jove has bolts, and Hell has ears!

  6. I implore thee particularly to assist me in my agony, when the powers of hell rise against me to rob my soul.

  7. All souls in hell are there because they did not pray.

  8. Prayer WE HAIL thee, strong child, who didst put to flight all hell and the powers of darkness.

  9. Carry this to the king: that I will see him and the whole kingdom sunk in hell before I will marry Louis of France.

  10. While she seems too near to him there you know that heaven is as near to hell as they are to each other.

  11. Having come to these conclusions, he stole by a side entrance like a guilty shadow to his room and tried to obtain such rest as is possible to those who are in the hell of mental torment.

  12. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  13. The sages of hell laid their heads together at this news.

  14. He turned the Florentine's moon into a depository of non-sense; and found no hell so bad as the hearts of tyrants.

  15. The wretch then candidly acknowledged, that hell itself had no torments for him, compared with those which suspicion had given him on earth.

  16. Is it not these things to which thou shouldest give heed--the passing of the world, and the Day of Judgment, and the pains of Hell to shun them, and the rewards of Heaven to earn them?

  17. Hell of a thing to tackle single-handed, though, eh, boh?

  18. Even now whenever I think of what Hell must be I think of what that gulch looked like.

  19. Yakimov paused suddenly in his furious tirade for lack of breath and in the deathly silence of the room, there was a sudden stir as a rich brogue queried anxiously of nobody in particular: "Who in Hell is he, then?

  20. But when I open my mouth to speak, McGuire will wish that Hell would open for him.

  21. Get the Hell out of here,' he says--ugly.

  22. It's Hell that's here and here it will remain.

  23. We were miles out in the Gila Desert and if ever there's a Hell on earth, it's there.

  24. It was Hell with the cover off and no mistake!

  25. Don't it beat Hell how the world bites the under dog!

  26. It is this life that is hell she had told herself.

  27. What the hell that woman means by her attitude towards you--When I saw her there to-day, I had all my work cut out not to go up and give her a bit of my mind.

  28. But at the first sign of faithlessness, a rope and the yard-arm, my friend, and an airy dance into hell for you.

  29. There was a shriek from the slaves, followed by such piteous groans as the damned in hell may emit.

  30. In an instant the fighting platform on the prow was become a raging, seething hell of battle luridly illumined by the ruddy glow from the lights aboard the Silver Heron.

  31. The hell of it is that I know not where to find a home, I know not where home may be after all these years.

  32. Look me at that scarlet fruit of hell up yonder.

  33. This, Sir John, that unless you order your men back aboard your ship, and make oath to desist from this encounter, I'll take you straight down to hell with us at once.

  34. It is in the power of women to drive war's hell from the earth and, whatever the cost, we are going to do it.

  35. They don't know where hell may break loose next--after Boston.

  36. Hell broke up, and the devil to pay, 200.

  37. For if you don't, you can never run away from the hell you'll carry in your own heart.

  38. They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

  39. They always had been more or less hell in the bishop's heart.

  40. I have publicly vowed my love for you, and Heaven nor hell shall keep me from you.

  41. Surely, Monsieur, it must be as you say: Heaven and hell are of our own contriving.

  42. It is nothing that I have suffered for three months as they in hell suffer for eternity?

  43. Hillhouse and he stood trembling from head to foot, then cried out in a voice of unutterable despair: "From heaven down to hell in one wild leap!

  44. Take hold upon God our Saviour, my friend, and all the powers of hell shall not prevail against you.

  45. The man you saw go first to his side can pity him, for he has himself more than once passed through that awful conflict with the power of hell upon which our poor friend has now entered.

  46. It was heaven, indeed, after that hell of gloom; that bog roofed in with leaves, the very smell of which clings to one for ever like the memory of a fever dream.

  47. When hell makes a super-excellent devil, the devil puts goodness in just as a baker puts soda in his bread to make it rise.

  48. And why the Hell shouldn't I go to Sapps Court?

  49. Hell on Earth, they did say, those that knew.

  50. Why the Hell shouldn't the name be Daverill?

  51. Heaven only knows--or should we not rather say, Hell only knows?

  52. I could bear them I was shut up with in the dark, and the vermin that crawled about us, and a'most laugh to be able to hear it again, and bless God that it sent him to Hell without time for a prayer!

  53. It was as though an Angel who had been in Hell might know all its ways, and yet remain unsullied by the knowledge.

  54. For they were to remain on the rack, while their more fortunate fellows could look forward to a joyous gallows, with possibilities beyond, from which Hell had been officially excluded.

  55. How the Hell should I have known, out there?

  56. If it was hell in Sherman's time, what word can describe the horror of it in our day?

  57. Divna ye min' hoo the apostle Peter cursed, whan he said to Simon, 'Gang to hell wi' yer siller!

  58. If any reader of this tale should argue it better then to do wrong and repent, than to resist the devil, I warn him, that in such case he will not repent until the sorrows of death and the pains of hell itself lay hold upon him.

  59. The Federal batteries answering doubled the din and made the valley and its slopes a hell of hideous noises.

  60. Then," roared the general, "then why the hell did you take so long to tell it?

  61. Heaven and hell are in antagonism, and there would be no strife but by and through the devil, and therefore his existence is a necessity to this end.

  62. I’m as hot as hell in these thick clothes.

  63. Well, if it gets out that we’ve given you a dinner and cornered you, they’ll all ask why in Hell they weren’t invited.

  64. Think of the utter abnegation, unselfishness and loftiness of purpose of that valiant little band who marched deliberately into the jaws of hell that October night to break the fetters of a despised and alien race!

  65. So long as the present system of capitalism prevails and the few are allowed to own the nation's industries, the toiling masses will be struggling in the hell of poverty as they are today.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bedlam; bowels; cacophony; cage; carouse; coop; crib; crucifixion; enclosure; equator; flat; frolic; furnace; hell; holocaust; horror; inferno; joint; laceration; limbo; martyrdom; nightmare; noise; oven; pandemonium; passion; pen; perdition; persecution; piece; poolroom; pound; purgatory; rack; racket; rebuke; revel; riot; spree; static; torment; torture; tropics; underworld; wassail


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hell fire; hell itself; hell shall not prevail