What is "hell-bent"

Usage examples of "hell-bent".

Bermuda was not like the Bahamas, a chain of seven hundred islands that had a chance to replenish each other if one or another was fished outthough some Bahamians seemed even more hell-bent than Bermudians on destroying themselves.

Clearly they did, the main use being to set ambushes for fog-brained warriors riding hell-bent through the night.

After three failed betrothals, he was so blinded by doubts about himself, so hell-bent on wedding, that he was unwilling to entertain anything that might seem to threaten his upcoming nuptials.

This is particularly frustrating because your sole duty is to serve thousands of ugly urbanites hell-bent on holiday hedonism.

I could see a number of them were down upon the ground already, but as I approached riding hell-bent for leather, they turned from their activities and sought sanctuary in the air where I could not reach them.

By the time I was ready to go home I had learned a few tricks about emergency book evacuation procedures (page 34), read about the aims of the Bowdlerizers (page 62), a group of well-meaning yet censorious individuals hell-bent on removing obscenities from fiction.

Even worse, hell-bent on making the place profitable, Rupert promptly dug up the famous rose garden and the orchard, built stables for thirty horses, turned the cricket pitch, where the village used to play regularly, into a show-jumping ring and put up an indoor school beyond the stables to buttress them from the bitter winds.

In the growing light of day, they could see Zainal plunging through a gap in the hedging and they altered their hell-bent pace in that direction and through to the next field.

Reeking of energy like an oversexed tomcat, Joe was always charging hell-bent for election around town in his old yellow pickup, like as not with a beer clutched tightly hi one fist--arrogant little Joe Mondragon, come to fix your trouble and claim your two bits, who didn't take no shit from no body.

Once I heard that fellow was going to stop his plane for fuel in Tulsa, and I drove up from Okmulgee, hell-bent for election just to see him.

Buenavista was a good one, and there were several others to which you could quickly transport a wounded cop if you were hitting the hammer and riding hell-bent for leather.

Then what do you do but go hell-bent after solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy without any thought whatsoever about the consequences.

The stupid aliens were hell-bent on forcing the passage and getting turned into Posleen Toasties in the process.