1.   Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it?

2.   The stairs seem like the north face of the Eiger, the temperature sheer hell.

3.   They described the war zone as sheer hell.

4.   His mother made the agonising decision to leave her husband and family to get her little boy away from a war zone these people describe as sheer hell.

5.   Mr Cawley says his time in jail was sheer hell.

6.   I have grappled with anguish and I have been through sheer hell.

7.   I went through sheer hell.

8.   Some murders seem random, with unconfirmed stories about drunken partisans killing people in bars for the sheer hell of it.

9.   We will go through five years of sheer hell.