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Example sentences for "hellish"

Lexicographically close words:
helix; hell; helle; hellebore; hellers; hells; hellum; helluva; helly; helm
  1. The hellish brood is scattered; the great bells of faith swing bravely out once more; the world is full of Sabbath sunshine and pied with simple field-flowers.

  2. Anselmus, full of fury; "it was thou alone and thy hellish arts that brought me to the sin which I must now expiate.

  3. Weele die with you: and Clotho pittilesse Shall vs with you in hellish boate imbarque.

  4. Rise up and in a body of Christian manhood and womanhood slay the monster of hellish iniquity.

  5. The more the earnings of the house of ill fame, the higher the value of the women enslaved, the more liberty granted to make hellish profits, the greater the protective graft.

  6. At each avenue leading into the hellish centers of the city should stand a lost woman, peering into the eyes and hearts of each girl who is creeping silently and shamefully to the vice dens.

  7. It is certain that each one casts a vote by the proxy system explained, for the existence of the hellish combine.

  8. Five thousand women, offered as slaves on the auction block of prostitution, give their lives to make up the hellish tolls.

  9. But if the priest was silent, his vile countenance indicated a degree of hellish pleasure and satisfaction.

  10. Since a hellish deed must be done he craved that they do it properly.

  11. The ship seemed on fire to as high as we could see with the hellish and continual flaming of the lightning.

  12. What sort of hellish things has the Old World been dumping into America for the last fifty years?

  13. There is no end to their stealthy cunning, to their devilish devices, to their hellish ingenuity!

  14. No doubt their rapid approach to the scene where their hellish cruelty and oppression were to be completed, did not serve either to exhilarate their spirits or to soothe the asperities of Blarden's ruffian temper.

  15. On tempestuous nights, when the boughs creaked together, it was said that dark shapes might be seen writhing on the branches and capering about the sward below in hellish glee.

  16. Then he looked up and into her face steadily, and one by one the purple blotches in his own face paled, and vanished, like the extinguishing of as many hellish lights.

  17. Truly this hellish nightmare of war and hate which had arisen brought with it a brood not less terrible.

  18. If I had really been insane during those two months, if some cloud had been on me, some demoniacal force dragging me on, the cloud and insanity vanished and the constraint was over in one moment, when that hellish enterprise was completed.

  19. A hole was quickly dug, the stave planted and fagots supplied; but before a fire could be kindled the wretched woman was dead, so that the barbarians were defeated in their hellish scheme of burning her alive.

  20. It rose from the depths, filling the air, re-echoing from the hills, and changing its modulations, a horrible chorus of moans and groans alternating with exclamations of hellish triumph.

  21. For it was possible that the hellish plot had developed much further, and that the warriors from the north were lurking already near by to pounce upon the Queres at daybreak.

  22. When he is close to the body his eyes sparkle with delight and pride, and his face gleams with the triumph of some hellish spirit.

  23. A hellish greed of lust to blast The virtuous and fair, To gratify that vain desire No human life would spare.

  24. And other crimes too vile to name; I'll tell it if I must; A crime that shocks all common sense, A greed of hellish lust.

  25. Bill Neal he saw Miss Emma Thomas, So beautiful and fair That all his hellish greed of lust Seemed to be centered there.

  26. Great curiosity was felt to know who the other two were whom Tituba saw in connection with Good and Osburn in their hellish operations.

  27. So far as we can look into those hellish mysteries, and guess at the administration of that kingdom of darkness, we may learn that witches make witches by persuading one the other to subscribe to a book or articles, &c.

  28. It is also well known, that, when these calamities first began, which was in my own family, the affliction was several weeks before such hellish operations as witchcraft were suspected.

  29. Her husband, referring to the transaction nearly twenty years afterwards, justly expressed what all must feel, that it was "a hellish molestation.

  30. The man he spoke to, at this turned round on him with the most withering and hellish expression of countenance that I ever beheld.

  31. At length, by lightening her aft, her broadside was got round, so as to return the fire; and now the hellish uproar began in earnest.

  32. Yes, 't is a hellish plot confronts me here.

  33. Me but too sore the sable fumes molest, Which hither form the hellish fires ascend.

  34. Emerging, next, from hellish caverns, fly These horrid harpies and assault his board; Which still pollute or waste the royal meat, Nor leave the monarch aught to drink or eat.

  35. Dismaid, Rinaldo fled the field, and prest With all his spurs his courser through the chase: But not behind the hellish monster halts, Who in a thought upon the crupper vaults.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hellish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anarchic; angry; animal; atrocious; barbaric; barbarous; beastly; bestial; black; bloodthirsty; bloody; blustering; brutal; brute; chaotic; cruel; cursed; damnable; dark; demoniacal; devilish; diabolic; diabolical; execrable; fell; feral; ferocious; fiendish; fierce; frantic; frenzied; furious; ghoulish; godless; hellish; infernal; inhuman; insensate; mad; mindless; monstrous; murderous; purgatorial; raging; raving; ruthless; sadistic; sanguinary; savage; scorching; storming; stormy; sulfurous; tempestuous; troublous; truculent; tumultuous; turbulent; unchristian; uncivilized; ungodly; unhuman; uproarious; vicious; vile; wild; wolfish