How to Use fire and brimstone in a Sentence

fire and brimstone

noun
  • The Devil laughs off the blow and fights back with fire and brimstone.
    Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • In Schiff’s hands, the threat carried traces of fire and brimstone.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The noodles carry all of that fire and brimstone from the bowl to your mouth.
    Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
  • And not the fire and brimstone Old Testament perdition.
    Damon Young, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • So there’s the Old Testament, where the catastrophes were more fire and brimstone.
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The works that seduce our ears most, or the ones that most effectively scare the dickens out of us with visions of fire and brimstone?
    James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Last year at Orlando and then at Dallas, these speakers spoke in voices full of fire and brimstone.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The good times were not to last, as the rockstar playground of Montserrat was destroyed—not by fire and brimstone, but first by drenching rains, then by molten lava.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
  • According to community lore, the area got its name because of a forest fire in the days of fire and brimstone sermons.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The parishioners are respectable, restrained people who don’t like to hear stuff about fire and brimstone from the pulpit on Sunday mornings.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • One researcher made a connection between earthquakes and a Bible story of fire and brimstone.
    National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Where was the fire and brimstone yelling and screaming because promptness is something every head coach demands of his players?
    Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2020
  • Antunes’ riffs are uncannily matched to Copeland’s fire and brimstone.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Saccone is not some jackleg preacher who wandered barefoot out of the woods one day, calling down fire and brimstone on the unworldly.
    Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
  • The Bengals better hope that’s what happens, because the alternative would produce a brand of fire and brimstone this fan base hasn’t unleashed since 2010.
    Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The segment, which actually happened, upsets the fire and brimstone Baptists that Jim is trying to impress.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • After a brutal loss to Stanford, players expected fire and brimstone from McKay, who was hardly the warm, cuddly type.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Harriet was the seventh of 13 children in a family of prominent ministers who did more than just preach fire and brimstone.
    Dinaw Mengestu, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2021
  • The script, though, is still too schematic about it all; this was true of the original, too, though that movie’s coolness, contra Fuqua’s literal fire and brimstone, hid its deficits far more successfully.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2021
  • But the Academy loves a lecture—especially one delivered with fire and brimstone—so expect this one to take home Best Picture.
    Tyler Coates, Esquire, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Despite the book’s title, Old Scratch never makes a personal appearance, wearing red horns and brandishing fire and brimstone.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Much of the fire and brimstone coming from the presidential palace actually strikes the very poor indigenous people trapped between the government and the communists.
    Vincent Bevins, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, fire and brimstone fell from the sky; multiple cities were destroyed; thick smoke rose from the fires; city inhabitants were killed and area crops were destroyed in what sounds like an eyewitness account of a cosmic impact event.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Ray Allen, to his genuine credit, holds his own against the fire and brimstone, keeping the movie grounded in recognizable reality with an understated air and sense of humor.
    K. Austin Collins, HWD, 2 May 2018
  • After that, this hybrid man-bot is consigned — with no ambiguity whatsoever — to the fire and brimstone of the biblical underworld.
    Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • His survival against impossible odds undermines the realism Sapochnik was clearly trying to capture with his tactile filmmaking and in-your-face fire and brimstone.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • After much complaining, equivocating and dragging of feet, Lot and his family reluctantly left Sodom — which was destroyed at daybreak by fire and brimstone raining from heaven.
    Glenna Christensen, idahostatesman, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This unincorporated village in Franklin County was supposedly named after a large forest fire during a fire and brimstone sermon in the early days of the community, the Boston Globe reports.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
  • While initial associations with apocalypse conjure images of fire and brimstone, the word in Greek actually means disclosure, an intimate act of telling.
    Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Billions is written in extended metaphors, strings of expletives, grandiloquent monologues, fire and brimstone soliloquies.
    Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018

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