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Recent Examples of sulfurous
Scientists think sulfurous compounds such as sulfur dioxide might have played a key role on early Earth that eventually paved the way for life to form.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
The New York chef Victoria Blamey, who grew up in Chile, hated cabbage and its sulfurous smell.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
Spoiled egg salad will smell sour or have a sulfurous odor like rotten eggs.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2024
The lightly sulfurous springs have been frequented since the Etruscans.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
The New York chef Victoria Blamey, who grew up in Chile, hated cabbage and its sulfurous smell.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
Spoiled egg salad will smell sour or have a sulfurous odor like rotten eggs.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2024
The lightly sulfurous springs have been frequented since the Etruscans.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sulfurous
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Because of the infernal heat and swamplike humidity at Beech Bend, there was a lot of prep work to be done before the Nostalgia Nationals elimination rounds could commence.Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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As the winter sun dipped beneath the horizon, the infernal roar of thousands upon thousands of horsepower filled the air as the race got underway.Nicholas Foulkes, airmail.news, 23 Nov. 2024
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Even though Ciara and Nikki catch some of the votes, Bob the Drag Queen is banished from the game after that hellish Traitor-on-Traitor violence.Nick Caruso, TVLine, 16 Jan. 2025
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But an indie Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, or even Skate, this is not: Eng is whisking us off to the nine hellish layers of the underworld to complete a series of fiendish skateboarding trials.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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But Lloyd is less interested in the specifics of either work than in the chthonic rage underneath.Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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And no one suffers quite like the True Believer; surrendering to optimism is an invitation for chthonic forces to start doling out a whole lot of emotional rump puntings.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Sulfurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulfurous. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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