How to Use hell-bent in a Sentence

hell-bent

adjective
  • Trump seems hell-bent on killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The young man is hell-bent on fighting, and Jamie laughs at his stubbornness.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 24 June 2023
  • Parsons is hell-bent to put on a show with the whole country watching all the way up to the owners suite.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Because that is a theocratic regime who is hell-bent on global jihad.
    — NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But why is Trump so hell-bent on annexing Greenland in the first place?
    — Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Ramirez attempted to flee via car-jacking but was held down by an angry mob hell-bent on his capture.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • That gave even more moral conviction to those hell-bent on stopping the enforcement actions.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • These systems may not be enough to stop a hell-bent Beijing from getting boots on Taiwan’s shores.
    — Jonathan Caverley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2024
  • To plumb the majesty of such a place, to know its secrets, requires more than a hell-bent drive over Newfound Gap.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • This is a group bonded by the dizzying heights of global acclaim, yet hell-bent on protecting the young boy at its center.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The men so hell-bent on revenge against Tea’s users are illustrating that hatred of women is alive and well.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 30 July 2025
  • Indeed, some Israelis are hell-bent on something worse than Trump’s deal of the century.
    — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Clearly, Hailey Bieber is hell-bent on pushing her highlighter swimwear agenda.
    — Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Maybe the real question is why was Fosse so hell-bent on identifying with Snider in the first place?
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Seward and Sumner tried to prove to the Cabinet that the British were hell-bent on war.
    — Zaakir Tameez june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • In the trailer, it’s revealed that most of Etta’s family was killed, and the young woman is hell-bent on revenge.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But Hoyer has been hell-bent this winter to make sure a lack of relief depth won’t be an issue in 2025.
    — Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • There’s no doubt that if healthy, Brown will be impacting a team that is hell-bent on returning to the postseason for the first time in five years.
    — Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Those are directives straight from Berube that Robertson has been hell-bent on implementing.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • They were ambushed, and Pauline was killed by stray gunfire from marauding mobsters hell-bent on killing Buford.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Everyone seems hell-bent on not returning the same old, same old, but shouldn’t consideration be given to see how the draft plays out?
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • But nobody's hell-bent on doing this in the Republican Party.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But the county is less likely to get the money if Fort Lauderdale is hell-bent against a bridge, according to the experts.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2024
  • Mack was hell-bent on pursuing music, scribbling down his thoughts and rhymes in a composition notebook and teaching himself to play the drums.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Fans online appeared charmed by the scrappy cast of characters who were hell-bent on finishing the Shakespearean work.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Indeed, these pages have numerous examples of hard-charging entrepreneurs hell-bent on pushing boundaries.
    — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • But other than that, this movie is nonstop adrenaline, with Spielberg hell-bent on topping Raiders’ stunt sequences.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • Mamoru Hosoda’s anime riff on Hamlet gives us a princess of Denmark hell-bent on killing the uncle who usurped the crown from her beloved dad.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
  • After a bad episode of road rage left them hell-bent on ruining each other’s lives for months, the finale finds them at their lowest points, and also their most vulnerable.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 7 Apr. 2023
  • When a tragic event makes her hell-bent for revenge, Jackie determines to take out the Demons one by one, unleashing her old killer instincts.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 July 2026

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