How to Use hellacious in a Sentence

hellacious

adjective
  • Traffic is hellacious this time of day.
  • This was a hellacious heavyweight matchup that lived up to the hype.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But the tour was a hellacious time for Bachman.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2026
  • There are the hellacious bus rides and south-of-the-border escapades of his minor league years.
    — Keith Hernandez, Fox News, 16 May 2018
  • This is shaping up to be a hellacious summer, even by Lone Star standards.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 9 May 2024
  • On a course that was by no means easy, but certainly not hellacious, Woods beat just seven players in the field.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
  • Strait served up his hellacious hooks in a voice as clear and strong as Jose Cuervo Silver.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 28 May 2018
  • Two decades ago Whitehall had at least two dozen working farms, and farm boys tend to be hellacious football players.
    — Tim Layden, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But a hellacious rainstorm rolled in after Yoakam’s set, so Willie agreed to reschedule.
    — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 5 Oct. 2017
  • There were no cage dives or hellacious crashes into the announcer's table.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Most of the victims already had testified about their hellacious childhood.
    — Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
  • And this particular stretch, covering a shade under three minutes on the game clock, was one hellacious show.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • Lineups featuring the trio of Dunn-Jones-Leonard are going to be hellacious.
    — Shane Young, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Adams took a hellacious shot from 49ers safety Jimmie Ward on a deep shot midway through the fourth quarter.
    — Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Their defense was hellacious, especially in the early going, scoring the first touchdown of the game.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Caruso isn't the only reason why the Thunder boast such a hellacious defense this year, but he's been a major contributor to it.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In addition to keeping Springer atop the lineup, Hinch insisted that Springer should not hold back on his hellacious hacks.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
  • For now, UConn fans will have to be satisfied with YouTube clips of his hellacious windmill and tomahawk jams.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Nothing has terrorized moviegoers quite like the hellacious space cockroach that came to be known as the xenomorph, first unleashed in 1979.
    — Darryn King, VanityFair.com, 18 May 2017
  • Think of them as tiny space invaders — specks of dust, sometimes smaller than a grain of sand, that have survived a trip through space and a hellacious entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
    — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 30 July 2017
  • Johnny Robles destroyed James Settle in just 20 seconds with a hellacious right cross.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Even against a hellacious Houston defense, the Patriots’ shortest path to victory is to ask Maye to carry them yet again.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Over the past 40 years, a range of subsequent HR policies have sought to undo this progress and, in the process, made working in government hellacious.
    — Danah Boyd, Wired, 23 Dec. 2020
  • There are stabbings, electrocutions and one hellacious fall out a window in the first movie, but that’s, well, child’s play compared to what Hamill’s Chucky unleashes.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
  • The film bluntly communicates the danger of football on the body and brain, with X-ray-vision scenes that show players’ skeletons bearing the impact of hellacious hits.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The pair becomes an effective duo, navigating a wild car chase through Rome in a tiny Fiat and a hellacious train trip on the Orient Express.
    — USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • The Hel Peninsula is one of Poland's busiest summer destinations, and getting there can be hellacious in peak vacation traffic.
    — Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • But the process of buying and selling homes at the same time seems hopelessly last-century – not to mention especially hellacious among all the difficult consumer experiences out there.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • When running back Boston Scott scored Philly’s third rushing touchdown with 21 seconds remaining, the 49ers were in a hellacious hole.
    — Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2023
  • But fishing boats will collide in the fog on Frenchman Bay, a fire truck will end up at the bottom of the harbor, and the gang will get caught in a hellacious lightning storm atop Cadillac Mountain.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021

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