like hell
idiom
informal + impolite
1
: very much
My back hurts like hell.
2
: with a lot of energy and speed
We've been working like hell since morning.
3
: very bad
This place looks like hell.
4
—used to say in an angry and forceful way that one will not do something, does not agree, etc.
"It's your fault!" "Like hell it is!"
Examples of like hell in a Sentence
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Collins works like hell to get a uterine tamponade inserted to stop the bleeding.
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Females are fighting it out, females are fighting like hell, females leave each other.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
The job is simple in those minutes: Attack the hoop and defend like hell.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
So regardless of what happens in album of the year, Swifties could be very pleased with the outcome of Grammy night, then turn their attentions toward rooting like hell for Kansas City in the Super Bowl next Sunday.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2025
Their choice: make nice and cooperate — or fight like hell?
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
One writer has remarked that the Hamilton boys could drive like hell and were afraid of nothing.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 July 2024
The lyrics don’t have the same toothy bite as Pink Floyd’s early work (those were mostly written by a certain ex-bandmate that Gilmour has been running like hell from in recent years), but the philosophical nature of his questioning is a throughline to his past.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
And don’t forget — everything will be running like hell.
—John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Females are fighting it out, females are fighting like hell, females leave each other.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025
The job is simple in those minutes: Attack the hoop and defend like hell.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
So regardless of what happens in album of the year, Swifties could be very pleased with the outcome of Grammy night, then turn their attentions toward rooting like hell for Kansas City in the Super Bowl next Sunday.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2025
Their choice: make nice and cooperate — or fight like hell?
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
One writer has remarked that the Hamilton boys could drive like hell and were afraid of nothing.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 July 2024
The lyrics don’t have the same toothy bite as Pink Floyd’s early work (those were mostly written by a certain ex-bandmate that Gilmour has been running like hell from in recent years), but the philosophical nature of his questioning is a throughline to his past.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
And don’t forget — everything will be running like hell.
—John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
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“Like hell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/like%20hell. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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