Sentence examples for hellhole of from inspiring English sources
It wasn't always a hellhole of anti-social behavior.
"There's this hellhole of a locker room with all these kids who haven't been introduced to hygiene," he said.
They were shunted from Christmas Island to the hellhole of Nauru, despite concerns for the mum's pregnancy.
Yet residents seem by and large to see the police as arbiters and protectors, and Watts bears little resemblance to the crime-ridden hellhole of 20 years ago.
Had I not seen the hellhole of Hue in wartime I would never had understood its achievement in a time of peace.
The New York mental institution where most of the action takes place is hardly the allegorical hellhole of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
They turn out not to be the hellholes of legend, but thoughtfully designed.
Even at the Superdome and the Convention Center, signature hellholes of the crisis, peace prevailed.
He was an apostle of efficient design, reviling cellars as hellholes of dampness and attics as reservoirs of junk.
He certainly may struggle in the PR category, given that he was accused of staying in hotels during a series about surviving unaided in the "hellholes of the world" and stage-managing his daring missions.
In this updated edition of his autobiography – first published 25 years ago – he ruefully admits that the body that somehow survived many of the worst hellholes of the latter part of the 20th century – from the Congo in 1964 to Iraq in 1991 – is "no longer truly fit for front-line purpose".
