How to Use sulfur in a Sentence

sulfur

noun

• Here the glamour of the 50s meets the sulfur of the 70s.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 13 Mar. 2023
• The air was smokey and acrid, overwhelmed by the scent of sulfur.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2020
• Some limit the amount of sulfur added to a wine in the cellar.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
• Light a match, wait a second for the sulfur to burn off, then hold the flame near the top of your glass.
  — Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• On the flip side, sulfur is very cheap and fairly easy to work with.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• The pH can be decreased with sulfur and increased with the use of lime.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
• Soon the camp erupted into smoke, flame and the smell of sulfur.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• Two of the 16 CSX train cars that derailed were breached, spilling molten sulfur.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• And, even more oddly, there was sulfur on the surface of the white dwarf as well.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2019
• Change the oxygen to a sulfur, and the conditions change yet again.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
• Among the challenges is that oil from the Persian Gulf tends to have more sulfur.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Mounds of what looked like grain had spilled from the train cars and molten sulfur, like lava, crawled across the grass.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• There were three asphalt cars and four sulfur cars in the river.
  — Time, 25 June 2023
• The creepy glow was caused by the sulfur, officials said.
  — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
• Also, a great zinc sulfur mask is a must for me at the moment as well.
  — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Nov. 2021
• The air reeked of sulfur and was tinged with burning asphalt.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 3 Oct. 2022
• Amend the Soil Based on the results of the soil-test kit, amend the soil with lime, peat moss, or sulfur, as discussed in Step 2.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2018
• Plus, the lower the sulfur, the less your eyeballs suffer.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 18 July 2024
• Worth a shot as well: lactic acid and sulfur, which help keep pores clear.
  — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• But the chemistry has been tricky as both sulfur and lithium can be volatile.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 July 2024
• The ratios of iron to sulfur, and iron to potassium, are not the same, either.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2021
• First, oil can be sour or sweet,a range that indicates how much sulfur is in the crude.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
• The normal way to halt a fermentation would be to add a bunch of sulfur to a wine, killing off the yeast.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020
• If the test proves the soil is alkaline, amend it with sulfur or pine needles.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
• The mask smells like rotten eggs, but the mix of sulfur and zinc always clears my skin within a day.
  — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 5 Mar. 2018
• Scientists were surprised not to find traces of sulfur in the core.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
• Method and Madness once used Tokaji casks that were too dry and had a slight sulfur note.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2020
• The rail cars that fell in the water contained asphalt, molten sulfur and scrap metal, the EPA said.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 2 July 2023
• The tools for the job were of course guns, but also sulfur, charcoal, matches, bellows, tin pipe, shovels, picks and axes for cutting away roots.
  — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
• That means there’s no sulfur left to build iron-sulfur complexes, without which the cell can’t make new mitochondria.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025