Hellscape

//ˈhɛl.skeɪp//

"Hellscape" in a Sentence (8 examples)

The 90s were such a bleak dystopian hellscape that people like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were the best some countries had to offer for "opposition" to the reactionary zeitgeist.

a Dantesque hellscape

As they crossed the Western Slope toward Utah, the dark began to come down again. The setting sun threw an orange-red glare over a fragmented hellscape that none of them could look at for long; one by one, they followed Bethany's example and pulled their windowshades.

Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.

“Traveling at near light speed, one year passed for Nik while eight years passed for Mari on Scotia. Once a thriving Celestial world, now a radioactive hellscape. Some expeditions to her harsh surface found priceless artifacts. Most found death.”

Miley Cyrus just got really honest about the hellscape that was "Hannah Montana"

Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages.

But, he added, “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences!”

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