What's the difference between hellish and landfall?

Hellish


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) - come up with something like this hellishly raw and poorly recorded album, but only if you were very, very lucky.
  • (2) For assassination attempts, oil spills, pirates and a hellish inferno outside Waco, Texas – read on.
  • (3) Unlike many of his countrymen, however, his family said Berhe stayed put in Sudan while he tried to find a safer route to the west than the hellish route through the Sahara and across the Mediterranean.
  • (4) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
  • (5) Reading it now, the subtext says, "If I came through that hellish experience and my whole shitty life without anti-depressants, which don't work anyway, you should be able to cope without them".
  • (6) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
  • (7) Many families speak of their gratitude to police family liaison officers, whose job is to escort them to court and to try and shield them through a hellish time.
  • (8) The Richmond Park byelection and prospects for a progressive alliance | Letters Read more “But that would still be hellishly difficult,” he insists.
  • (9) Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
  • (10) Save us from the great peeling monster,” you would cry, as Trump screamed from his hellish peel-pit: “The skin is not the best bit!
  • (11) This rule was the main source of the formation of very long queues under the sun – people had to line up for hours and hours on a daily basis in the hellish hot weather of Manus island for just having food.
  • (12) Amnesty’s report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, described the treatment of migrants by traffickers as “hellish” and warned that hundreds – possibly thousands – may have perished because of the “disastrous consequences” of Thailand’s crackdown.
  • (13) Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we are filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” said Rupert Colville, the UN’s human rights spokesman, before the ceasefire deal emerged.
  • (14) "For me personally, there have been several months when it has been hellish, but during that process I've actually been very well supported by a raft of very good friends," Flowers told the BBC.
  • (15) We Americans have gone from one hellish Christmas to the next, and brave protesters have been occupying malls and interrupting shoppers’ business as usual.
  • (16) The first female leader of CAR, and only the third in Africa, has inherited a hellish legacy that leaves her trying pull the country back from the brink of civil war.
  • (17) Recently he used an interview to slag off a whole bunch of hellish people, namely spendy Russians.
  • (18) That kind of behaviour can be just as bad as physical abuse if someone is living in a hellish situation day-in, day-out.
  • (19) "While this hellish day signalled the end of the 160 million-year reign of the dinosaurs, it turned out to be a great day for mammals, who had lived in the shadow of the dinosaurs prior to this event."
  • (20) Perhaps this is unsurprising: Tito's 35 years in power now seem like a golden plateau of peace between two hellish abysses of exterminatory inter-ethnic chauvinism.

Landfall


Definition:

  • (n.) A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
  • (n.) Sighting or making land when at sea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why, for example, would a meteorologist fail to correctly predict where a hurricane was going to make landfall, or why might a doctor fail to figure out what was going on inside my son and fix it?
  • (2) But the latest computer models from the Japanese government and Noaa suggest most of the wreckage that will make landfall will begin washing up this October and continue into late 2013.
  • (3) With winds weakening to about 75mph, the tropical storm made landfall in northern Vietnam early on Monday.
  • (4) Forecasts suggest the oil will make landfall on Thursday.
  • (5) There’s still a distinct possibility that his could make landfall somewhere in the US,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and hurricane center spokesman.
  • (6) "There aren't too many buildings constructed that can withstand that kind of wind," meteorology expert Jeff Masters told the Associated Press of Haiyan's 195mph landfall.
  • (7) The ruling is a partial victory for the families – originally from Iraq, Sudan, Ethiopia and Syria – who left the coast of Lebanon in a fishing boat operated by smugglers in the hope of making an Italian landfall.
  • (8) Typhoon Vincente made landfall at 4am (8pm GMT Monday), after the Hong Kong Observatory issued its No 10 hurricane signal, its highest, for the first time since 1999.
  • (9) With no clear sign of an early fix, authorities were stepping up their efforts to keep the oil from making landfall.
  • (10) The safety of these refugees, whether they are fleeing a state that has failed politically or economically, is a duty not just for the country in which they make landfall but for the whole of the EU.
  • (11) If your hurricane plans got a little dusty because of the light hurricane season, now is a good time to update them.” Even if Joaquin does not make landfall, forecasters warn that it could produce heavy rains, gusty winds and coastal flooding.
  • (12) They went back to the example of how a given hurricane will behave when it makes landfall, how fast it will be going when it does, and what they said is that we’re asking science to do more than it can when we ask it to tell us what exactly is going on.
  • (13) Then, it will make a 90 degree right turn upon landfall.
  • (14) Ryan Zimmerman hits a double off of him almost as soon as Harper's home run ball makes landfall.
  • (15) Thirteen of them were typhoon-strength, the biggest by some way being typhoon Haiyan , possibly the most powerful tropical cyclone to make landfall in recorded history.
  • (16) Nearly half of those displaced are in coastal areas considered highly vulnerable to storm surges and flooding from cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall early on Friday.
  • (17) At 4:45 a.m. EDT, Hurricane Andrew made landfall 35 miles southeast of Miami at Homestead, with sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (mph) and gusts of 164 mph.
  • (18) Sebald goes on to recount his own eventual landfall on the island in 1996, then employs this – the parenthetic of his own life – to consider the strange denouement and afterlife of the pre-eminent ideologue of the French revolution.
  • (19) There will be no accompanying craft, but the Plastiki will be met by a support team at each landfall.
  • (20) Sullivan pointed out that 1992 was a below-average season – but the first storm that year, Andrew, affected Florida for decades after its landfall.

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