How to Use the hell in a Sentence
the hell
noun
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Find the book again—what the hell? Time for a road trip!
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Katie Barsotti,
The New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2023
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And if a horror flick isn’t scary, what the hell is the point?
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Longreads,
27 Sep. 2024
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Who knows what the hell this guy might turn into for the Jays.
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Daniel Kohn,
SPIN,
27 Mar. 2024
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Ryan… who the hell knows what’s going on with that kid.
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Alex Raiman,
EW.com,
18 July 2024
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So, what the hell are the Avengers going to do against a thousand Kangs?
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2023
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For those of you wondering, Wait, what the hell is a ghost poop?
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Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
3 Oct. 2024
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For Gretchen, the hell of not knowing where her son is has ended.
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Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
10 Dec. 2023
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But why the hell would Belichick want to work for Fredo Spanos?
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Nov. 2023
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And then […] oh my god, what the hell did that just blossom into?
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Jordan A. Rothacker,
SPIN,
20 Dec. 2023
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To Napster the hell out of it, to ride roughshod and disrupt for the sake of disruption.
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Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
11 July 2024
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As the lower courts’ confusion shows, no one seems to know what the hell that means.
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Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
15 Aug. 2024
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But few knew of the hell Nicole endured behind closed doors at the hands of her husband.
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Kc Baker,
Peoplemag,
11 Apr. 2024
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But Cliff, who had one of the great voices of the classic rocksteady and reggae era, sings the hell out of it.
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David Polansky,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 July 2024
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Where the hell did the false claim that Haitian immigrants are eating pets come from?
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Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
9 Sep. 2024
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Also: The less said about the bullpen and whatever the hell’s going on in left field, the better.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
4 Oct. 2024
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Why put yourself through the hell of non-front-closure bras when there are so many styles to choose from?
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Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
28 Feb. 2024
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One of the biggest cliffhangers, though, was what the hell happened to Ashley?
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Sophie Hanson,
StyleCaster,
19 July 2024
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How the hell does one even begin to put together a list of the best jackets of all time?
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Isaiah Freeman-Schub,
Robb Report,
21 Sep. 2023
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But can’t have a pool or sauna or whatever the hell that is in the stadium.
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Mike Freeman,
USA TODAY,
27 June 2023
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Fight back, support those who do, get the hell out of the way or prepare to defend yourself.
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Eli Saslow Erin Schaff,
New York Times,
19 Nov. 2023
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What the hell was going on that people could turn like that on the people who’d been attacked?
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2024
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What scares the hell out of me is what will happen when the next big earthquake happens and the towers fall and the power fails.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
2 Oct. 2024
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There was never a blueprint to it; nobody knew what the hell was gonna happen next.
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Mathias Döpfner,
Rolling Stone,
19 Aug. 2024
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Within minutes, people on Nextdoor were like, ‘What the hell?
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Evan Halper,
Washington Post,
25 Aug. 2023
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My wife sitting next to me is just wondering, what the hell is going on.
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Carly Thomas,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Aug. 2024
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Now, how the hell are you supposed to know the inner workings of your dentist’s office?
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Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
19 Sep. 2023
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Blumhouse’s latest strategy to scare the hell out of you: video games.
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Ryan Faughnder,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2024
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Anyway, that’s going to be talked about the Touch of Evil opening or some of the great long takes ever, so how the hell did you guys do it?
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Scott Feinberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 July 2024
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The difference there is that most people will not care, because who the hell owns an 8K TV right now?
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Antonio G. Di Benedetto,
The Verge,
11 Sep. 2024
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But what happens a year later when the Lutz family moves into the Long Island house will scare the hell out of you.
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Sharon Virts,
People.com,
5 Oct. 2024
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