hellstorm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hell + storm.
Compound parts: hell
storm
Inflected forms:
form: hellstorms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hellish onslaught.
pos: noun
examples: They marched up through the open field under the hellstorm of shells and bullets from the Spanish.
With the Athalar magic to restore her life, she could weather the hellstorm of Synalon’s deathbolts.
Thus, when, through the constant fear of obliteration of existence, the psyche is left with mere existence itself, then the psyche is not only cleansed, but all psyches that have weathered the hellstorm of terror are left with the same thing – mere (general) existence.
Without hesitation, the commandos triggered their assault rifles and light machine guns. Hemmed in by the circle of Soviet executioners, the yaks cried out in terror and agony as lead hellstorms of 7.62mm lead marched along their hides.
The invasions of Guadalcanal and Tarawa were hellstorms of bayonet-in-the-gut fighting—and America’s first steps to Tokyo.
Blowing flame, the automatic shotguns roared louder than thunder, spraying a hellstorm of lead pellets that killed half a dozen people inside the restaurant and blew off chunks of the tabletop.
Twin hellstorms of orange energy erupted from the Gagarin’s forward torpedo launchers, followed almost immediately by a second pair.
ROM's first track sounded a bit (dare I say) Epi-Fat-ish but come back strong with 2 hellstorms of Japanese hardcore guitar fury.
[…] it was the sudden introduction to the continual hellstorm of noise that shook the world around her, the world she had fallen into: the sound of a world blowing itself apart.
I was there when the mighty god-machines of the Legio Argentum, denied entrance to the gate also, had to stride through the acid hellstorms of Lesser Damantyne.
He was about to discharge a hellstorm of buckshot into her leathery little face when she pushed the barrel away.
A freshly minted English major, I cooked three days a week at a German-American diner on Park Rapids’ Main Street, working the early breakfast shift, which on Sunday mornings was the hellstorm of brunch—schnitzels frying next to pancakes sitting next to spitting onions on the greasy griddle—and on weekdays a pretty mellow business of feeding the regulars.
Such maneuvers, if carried out both at high velocity and with a high degree of randomness, could prevent the enemy from getting a solid target lock—and that meant precious extra seconds of survival in the hellstorm of close fighter combat.
She blinked rapidly, trying to figure out what had just happened. If she was still standing upright. If the world around them still existed, or had been consumed in a fiery hellstorm of doom.
Eggsy knew he had to think fast before the guards came to their senses and unleashed a hellstorm of machine-gun fire.
At the same time, it made me desperate to get to Ember. To get us all out of here and find someplace safe before the world exploded in a hellstorm of dragonfire.
Pulling him off the detail and replacing him with another officer would result in a hellstorm of controversy and second-guessing about preferential treatment of her fiancé.
The Astra Militarum achieve their victories through hellstorms of firepower, grinding attrition and sheer dogged determination.
Even a hint of pushback on anything Carey does or says brings a hellstorm of vitriol at anyone who dares attempt it.
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