How to Use infernal in a Sentence

infernal

adjective
  • Stop making that infernal racket!
  • But where to start was the infernal question; every attempt would be a stab in the dark.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But in the case of the Rockies in recent years, that’s just been infernal noise.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Númenor’s last king heeds this infernal counsel and sails with a mighty fleet to those undying lands.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The stake, with the hooded heretic, the black man or the witch attached to it, is the burning tree and body of the infernal world.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • The problem is the infernal force of atomization that is running all over us.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Baise-Moi is a torrent of a text, trapped in the velocity of an infernal present.
    — Nadja Spiegelman, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The Times Square of The Deuce is not just infernal but well on its way to collapse.
    — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • And, really, have many young quarterbacks had more infernal noise around them than Tua?
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Hughes rotated a ball valve a quarter-turn to launch, and the rocket leapt skyward with an infernal hiss.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Our artillery still fired incessantly, filling the air with an infernal din.
    — Mary Horlock, Longreads, 21 June 2018
  • The oil sands are an infernal region, with mountains of literal brimstone and lakes of poison.
    — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Some gear heads scorned the very idea of swapping internal combustion with infernal lithium.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 5 June 2021
  • The vaguely infernal appearance of casino floors — the reddish hues, the lack of natural light and fresh air — fits right in here.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The vast majority of racers to enter cycling’s most infernal race have never made it to the finish line.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Ballingrud gives us an epic adventure of infernal swashbuckling, burnin' love, double-(upside-down) crosses and gore by the gallon.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Now the infernal Cruella gets a movie to herself, with Emma Stone in the title role.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 May 2021
  • The kitchen itself is roughly 100 square feet, barely enough space to fit the infernal oven and a station to construct pies.
    — Associate Restaurant Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2023
  • At the same time, the powers behind the game seem to agree that the contests are too long, and are trying to cut down on the dawdling and those infernal pitcher’s mound chit-chats.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
  • There was something at once vital and infernal about that all-consuming Cartesian creation.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Linda Cardellini offers up a killer breakdown to the roaring chorus of the lawn guy’s infernal leaf blower.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In Miami Vice, the city, shot on video, gives off an infernal digital glow that speaks not of hopes and dreams, but of pure menace.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Outside, the sun cast an infernal heat on the city, with the temperature brushing up to 100 degrees.
    — Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Adding to the allure, taxes and those infernal fees which usually jack up total cost for concert tickets are included.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 July 2021
  • And so began my long-overdue quest to free myself of those infernal adapters, spurred on by Comcast’s latest round of price increases.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • In Stapleton's songs, whiskey, lust, music and the lure of the road loom as infernal demons that waylay many an earnest seeker of peace and happiness.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 5 July 2017
  • Smoke from wildfires in Canada lent skies across the northern United States an infernal hue this past June.
    — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As the winter sun dipped beneath the horizon, the infernal roar of thousands upon thousands of horsepower filled the air as the race got underway.
    — Nicholas Foulkes, airmail.news, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The sky is not falling, just those infernal late-afternoon showers in South Florida.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • The bustle of the mountain stream a stone’s throw from the tent created a symphony with a rhythm that had lulled me fast to sleep, but the infernal inner clock was having none of it.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2020

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