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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024