(v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
(v. t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
(v. t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
(v. t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
(v. t.) A gambling house.
(v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
(v. t.) To overwhelm.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(2) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(3) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
(4) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
(5) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
(6) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(7) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
(8) Instead, because of other people, it all too often becomes something else: a complete and utter hell.
(9) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
(10) One hell of a party” it ain’t, but it is great to know that you are appreciated while you are still able to hear it.
(11) One neighbour said: “Janet’s done nothing wrong and this must be hell for her.” This article was corrected on 25 March 2017.
(12) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
(13) Downtown LA is improving, but for years it was a desolate hell zone of freeways, office blocks and closed stores.
(14) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
(15) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(16) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on,” an assertion that JP Morgan has consistently claimed is false.
(17) He said the French government had opened the "gates of hell" and "fallen into a trap much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia".
(18) The question about what the hell am I doing standing in, might be raised.
(19) And when Israel is hit, it is going to be a hell, hundreds of rockets are going to fall on it.
(20) It's been a wonderful game of football, with both sides going hell-for-leather and it couldn't be more even as things stand: all square on the scoreboard, with each aside having scored an away goal.
Inferno
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other side of the school, events had taken on an Inferno-esque turn.
(2) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(3) For assassination attempts, oil spills, pirates and a hellish inferno outside Waco, Texas – read on.
(4) You've written a book called The Moronic Inferno .")
(5) Craning forwards it was hard to know whether to feel thrilled at the sight of this white-hot inferno of British justice, or simply terribly depressed that it should have come to this for noble old Liverpool FC.
(6) But damage was widespread with more than 90 tents and dozens of prefabricated housing units going up in flames and vast numbers of refugees losing their meagre belongings to the inferno.
(7) He sees his job unequivocally as the defence of high culture: no negotiations with the moronic inferno.
(8) Her childhood, according to a British biographer, Emma Gilbey, "was a blistering inferno of racial hatred".
(9) Based loosely on Dante's Inferno, the novel once again features Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon – the protagonist from best-sellers The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol – as it follows Sienna, his balding female companion, to the sprawling city of 13 million.
(10) They told him fires had raged around their homes for a week before they succumbed to the inferno.
(11) Officials at the RWE npower-owned site shut down the site quickly to stop the incident turning into an inferno.
(12) Now, with the compounding effects of days in the inferno, with little or no medication or fluids, they had deteriorated.
(13) All 16 Graves disease patients exhibited a pulsatile pattern we call "thyroid inferno."
(14) It was while working along the US-Mexican border, in an inferno of violence and addiction, that I came to see the wisdom of the proposed Colombian strategy.
(15) Yanukovych's concessions on Friday ended 48 hours of violence that had turned the centre of Kiev into an inferno of blazing barricades.
(16) "You have thrown your family into an inferno," it stated.
(17) Mariluce advised us not to take photographs as we looped through one alleyway in a part of the favela called Inferno Verde (Green Hell).
(18) Yet the Vatican's chief astronomer, Gabriel Funes, recently announced that Catholics should actually welcome aliens as our extraterrestrial brothers, quoting Dante's Inferno as his mission statement: "Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars."
(19) The impact of the thousands of bombs dropped on Guernica, of the aircraft machine guns strafing civilians trying to flee the inferno, is still felt to this day – by the elderly survivors, who will eagerly share their vivid memories, as well as by Guernica's youth, who are struggling to forge a future for their town out of its painful history.
(20) Rauschenberg created the 38 Inferno drawings as a modern counterpoint to Dante and Virgil's journey through hell, replacing Dante's characters with his own heroes, American figures like Pollock and de Kooning.