hellhound
noun
a mythical watchdog of hell.
hellhounds
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pluralof hellhound.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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We get no sense of the man’s haunted determination—no hints of those hellhounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Wilson describes Herald in detail in the script: “A man driven not by the hellhounds that seemingly bay at his heels, but by his search for a world that speaks to something about himself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
For the Greeks, the Black Sea was the edge of the known world, inhabited by, as he writes in the book, “cannibals, hellhounds, man-slaughtering Amazons, dwarves mounted on flying cranes, Cyclopes, lice-eaters, and werewolves.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
In the first couple hours of Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara I fought and killed goblins, skeletons, gnolls, kobolds, displacer beasts, hellhounds, and a manticore, among myriad other classic D&D beasties.
From Forbes ● Jun. 21, 2013
Telkhines and hellhounds and enemy half-bloods scrambled after them.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
