as in infernal
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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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The wildfires scorching Southern California are turning entire neighborhoods into ash, decimating expensive properties and exacerbating an insurance crisis that predates the infernal blazes.—
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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.—
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Therefore, a compass on the hellish planet would be as useless as one on the Moon.—
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There's still 73 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in those same hellish tunnels.—
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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.—
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But Lloyd is less interested in the specifics of either work than in the chthonic rage underneath.—
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“Sulfurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulfurous. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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