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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
See all Example Sentences for sulfurous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sulfurous
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Christ and his angels battled for your salvation, while the Devil and his many demonic spirits sought to trick and tempt, to pull you into their infernal kingdom.James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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The stake, with the hooded heretic, the black man or the witch attached to it, is the burning tree and body of the infernal world.John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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The second season finds Jeong Jin-soo (Kim Sung-cheol), founder of a religious cult, as one of many back on Earth after a hellish trip, dealing with the ramifications of resurrection.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
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The sequel isn’t totally starved for fresh ideas, conceptual or thematic; for one, the rules governing its hellish setting — a symbolic column of class warfare, like the Snowpiercer flipped on its side — have been tweaked.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
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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 Dec. 2024.
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