Sentence examples for little hell from inspiring English sources

"He should give them a little hell, the way Truman did".

There, freed from hospitals, they could "raise a little hell" for a while.He liked to do the same.

Mr. Behan, no stranger to raising a little hell, arrived with his wife, his mistress and his probation officer.

This solo project of Mr. Green's, long a cult favorite in his native Ontario, yielded a hearty, enriching release in 2012, "Little Hell" (Vagrant).

He is demolished when he drops into the dungeon of the old castle that is the couple's home on an island that the locals call "little hell".

In 1935 he even urges her to "write to Tom about his book and put a little hell into the letter...

The poet Ovid was exiled by Augustus to a little hell-hole on the Black Sea called Tomis, but his poetry has outlasted the Roman Empire.

You've heard of those wilderness programs for youths so wayward that a staff member must come to your door to haul bodily the little hell-raiser out to the woods.

Secular humanism, he said, "builds little hells for man on earth.... Communism was worse than a social tyranny because it was a theological heresy".

As Carlyle (no stranger to marital problems himself) wrote, the homes of these utilitarians, devoted to philosophical self-improvement, "are little Hells of improvidence, discord, unreason".

Leaving folkiedom even further behind, she made her coming album, "Little Hells" (Kemado), with a band, and plans to tour with one.