Hellish has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Life is more hellish than hell itself. | |
| 2. | Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases...but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. | |
| 3. | The road to simplicity is paved with hellish complexities. | |
| 4. | It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. | |
| 5. | Will you shut up, hellish cicada? | |
| 6. | This election campaign is going to be a hellish mix of vituperative venom, as nasty as a fraternity house bathroom on New Year's Eve. | |
| 7. | Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog. | |
| 8. | The pile driver is destroying the peaceful morning with a hellish racket. |