How to Use hell-bent in a Sentence

hell-bent

adjective
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  • 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
  • The young man is hell-bent on fighting, and Jamie laughs at his stubbornness.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 24 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kreese is hell-bent on his goal to get to the Sekai Taikai with Cobra Kai, and that feels like a long, ruminating ambition for him.
    — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 20 July 2024
  • The Sun Sentinel is hell-bent on championing the demise of South Florida due to global warming.
    — Chuck Lehmann, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • But nobody's hell-bent on doing this in the Republican Party.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Clearly, Hailey Bieber is hell-bent on pushing her highlighter swimwear agenda.
    — Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Andra Day gives one of the year's best genre performances as Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother raising two kids in a house hell-bent on taking their souls.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 5 Oct. 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
  • Context: Reinsdorf is reportedly in talks with a group that is hell-bent on bringing a baseball franchise to Nashville.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
  • For Putnam, great wasn’t great enough — the engineer was hell-bent on innovation, crafting state-of-the-art rooms with equipment that would soon be replicated around the country.
    — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Neither the government nor the army has done anything to stop rampaging Israeli settlers who are hell-bent on driving these people—some of whom are my friends—off their lands.
    — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The Trilogy tour, in all, was a dizzying, unstoppable force, a celebration of three Latin icons who are hell-bent on getting your hips moving and your throat hoarse from screaming.
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Powered by profound pain, these parents are hell-bent on ending the worst drug crisis ever recorded in U.S. history.
    — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • Both Adam Clay and John Wick are retired from elite secret assassin organizations and are hell-bent on revenge.
    — William Earl, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Minari’s Alan Kim stands out in a handful of scenes as a camper hell-bent on becoming a talent agent, barking into phones around the camp’s administrative offices like a tiny Ari Gold.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 July 2023
  • In effect, those dolts have allied themselves with Hamas, a terrorist military cabal hell-bent on a latter-day holocaust.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • She is given a second chance at life when she is resurrected by an ancient Fox Demon who is hell-bent on revenge and reclaiming her own place in the demonic world.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
  • But everyone at Sha, even the waitstaff, is so hell-bent on the benefits of the macrobiotic diet that there’s little point arguing.
    — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
  • This ranges from their widespread, hell-bent determination to find purpose in work and pushing their employers to have a social conscience, to a sense of despair over their own and the world’s future finances.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Advertisement The Lakers, hell-bent on getting up more three-point shots after finishing second to last in attempts last season, all looked eager to launch.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Shots clanked off the rim like jingle bells and, for some reason, the Wolves seemed hell-bent on challenging Davis in one-on-one situations rather than seek out mismatches against the plethora of putrid defenders that flanked him.
    — Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Many workers are hell-bent on leaving the office once their workday ends, and couldn’t even be convinced to attend their annual office holiday parties last month.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Advertisement Much to unpack here, but my first thought: Is everyone with the last name DeSantis hell-bent on stripping people of their personal rights?
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Still, Democratic strategists might try harder to keep the future of their party happy than trying to win over the forces hell-bent on locking them out of power indefinitely.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Advertisement Still, one ironic outcome from these troubles is an orchestra hell-bent on proving its worth.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • The seemingly simple mission turns deadly when the leader of a notorious crime syndicate becomes hell-bent on claiming the organ.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024

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