HELL in a Sentence

Learn HELL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

120 example sentences for HELL, such as:

1. My mother made my life hell.
2. A wicked man is his own hell.
3. When war begins then hell opens.
4. When war begins, then hell openeth.
5. He went through hell during the trial.

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 Meanings and Examples of HELL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hell
 n.  place of the dead, or of souls after death where sinners suffer eternal punishment; any place of pain and turmoil
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  All the fiends of hell seemed screaming in her ears and her brain swirled with confusion and panic so overpowering she clung to the window sill for support.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  "By God, I'll give these damn Rebels something to remember me by," shouted the private finally when the sergeant, losing his good nature, told him to go to hell and not talk back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  But hell's afire, Scarlett, it can't be news to you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  The hell of it is Dolly said I'd be only too pleased to help do it, 'cause I didn't have anything much else to do.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  "And there'll be hell to pay for it--I beg your pardon, Scarlett," said Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  "That's what I meant by saying there'd be hell to pay," said Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  But Father always found out and raised merry hell with her, till her life wasn't worth living, poor girl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  And if I can manage it, you'll play hell getting a cent from any of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  You are only sorry because you are afraid of going to hell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  I really didn't think about God much then--or hell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  "But you were the main one I wanted to tell to go to hell," said Scarlett, and laughed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  And because of her contempt, she told them to go to hell as often as they annoyed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
14  I've gone through life like a bat out of hell, never caring what I did, because nothing ever mattered to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  But, hell, I wouldn't have grudged him your body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  If the heaven are too crowded, we went to hell rampant.
2  He went through hell during the trial.
3  When war begins, then hell openeth.
4  When war begins then hell opens.
5  There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
6  The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
7  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
8  It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
9  They haven't a cat in hell's chance of getting over the mountain in weather like this.
10  Everybody knows they haven't got a hope in hell of forming a government anyway.
11  A wicked man is his own hell.
12  If he can't afford a good lawyer, he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the case.
13  Dreaming in the memory is not as good as waiting for the paradise in the hell.
14  I had one hell of a hangover the next morning.
15  My mother made my life hell.