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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
Adjective
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The wildfires scorching Southern California are turning entire neighborhoods into ash, decimating expensive properties and exacerbating an insurance crisis that predates the infernal blazes.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
16 Jan. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Shows such as Stranger Things and Buffy the Vampire Slayer settled on the trope of a hellish world reachable only through science-fiction portals.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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Precisely who Trump wants to punish appears secondary to his delight in releasing precisely those hellish dogs.—
Rachel Hadas,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2025
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That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 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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“Sulfurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulfurous. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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