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"sheer hell" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation or experience that is extremely difficult, unpleasant, or chaotic. It emphasizes the severity or intensity of the experience. Example: The hot and crowded subway during rush hour was sheer hell for Jane, who had a fear of enclosed spaces.
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"I went through sheer hell.
Federer challenges, just for the sheer hell of it.
The answer is: for the sheer hell of it.
"That's when everything with my mom went from tense but manageable to sheer hell," Greg said.
"I have grappled with anguish and I have been through sheer hell..
"It's been sheer hell," said Ralph Ponticelli, the father of one of the pilots killed.
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It was sheer bloody hell".
Moody and alienated young delinquents are killing for thrills, for celebrity, for the sheer Dostoevskian hell of it.
But I think posterity will set him alongside French surrealist Benjamin Péret, famously photographed in the street shouting insults at an astonished and outraged priest – for the sheer, anarchic hell of it.
It's both a boast and a shrug, and — true to her theme — a risky choice for an opener, daring the reader to disapprove, even raising the concern (at least among the more decorously inclined) that the essays to follow may amount to an insubstantial collage of you-go-girl actings-out for the sheer, and mere, hell of it.
These boiling houses were sheer furnaces of hell, with workers laboring round the clock around scalding pots and grinding machines.
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