Hell Gate

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noun

a narrow channel in the East River, in New York City.

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How to use Hell Gate in a sentence

Hell, he says Koenig never referred to it as Serial or even as a podcast.
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The revelation that, at age 42, Ben Affleck has one hell of an ass.
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How the hell does somebody show up at a David Duke organized event in 2002 and claim ignorance?
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Hell, one of the Dixie Chicks even offered to Uber her balls over to the company.
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And, the Chilbosan would make a hell of a comedy movie; “Fawlty Towers” meets the “Great Dictator.”
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They used to declare that every unbaptised baby would go to Hell and burn for ever in fire and brimstone.
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The city hell hounds sprang to meet them and the slaughter of inoffensive Europeans began in Darya Gunj.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
A gentleman does not call his opponents vipers and consign them to hell, but Jahveh is not under any such obligations.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway