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Meanings of Hell in English
Religious or mythological place of (often eternal) suffering.
Related terms
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment.
Synonyms
Examples for "inferno"
Examples for "inferno"
1
During all the summer and fall of 1976 China was an inferno.
2
Of all the evil men in that inferno, Snake was the foulest.
3
The word had no meaning for him in that inferno of suffering.
4
And we need not see a raging inferno in every brush fire.
5
The saloon became an inferno of drink and sweat and tobacco smoke.
1
I did time way up west in a hellhole called Brownsville Station.
2
That's why she hightailed it out of this hellhole forty years ago!
3
The best part is that she's out of that hellhole. Margaret paused.
4
What hellhole had she come from, to find delight in such things?
5
What do you get when you cross a cataclysm with a hellhole?
1
No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
2
To-day you prosper-to-morrowyou are cast down into a hell on earth.
3
The Iliad is mostly war,-menacting hell on earth, as Goethe said.
4
As that man's wife her life would have been hell on earth.
5
It was intolerable, a hell on earth, but the woman was right.
1
The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit.
2
They were about to roll into the middle of a snake pit.
3
Into this snake pit of lofty prospects arrives 'Mad Men's second-season launch.
4
Their weapons were as dead as mice in a snake pit.
5
My God, what a fucking snake pit this has turned out to be.
1
They were down in the pits mixing the mortar, were the women.
2
One by one the five hundred coffins were laid in the pits.
3
She will break her neck in one of the pits some day.
4
Some dashed off the bluff and fell among the pits and sluices.
5
They were now down at floor level in one of the pits.
Usage of Hell in English
1
No really, this area of Manhattan New York is called Hell's Kitchen.
2
But in the torment of Hell shall the wicked remain for ever:
3
I cannot cross the barrier; Hell has posted the Vertumni as sentinels.
4
Barcelona in August was like the Hell to which Emile likened it.
5
Somewhere among the Off Islands; on the Terrier, maybe, or the Hell-meadows.
6
The sword of the believer is the Key of Heaven and Hell.
7
And he shall look and see him in the midst of Hell.
8
We should be living in Paradise, while other men were in Hell.
9
He believed in Hell, and the belief was a consolation to him.
10
It's no wonder you see the world through Hell's glasses, I say.
11
Our English New Testament represents the rich man as being in Hell.
12
To him in those days Heaven was Heaven and Hell was Hell.
13
When he had crossed the water he found the entrance to Hell.
14
At Hell-Knows-Where, you know, we protect our trolls under a citizenship extension.'
15
Verily, we have got Hell ready as the abode of the infidels.
16
I call myself a pilot in Hell-Gate, though I have no branch.
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