How to Use fire and brimstone in a Sentence

fire and brimstone

noun

• The Devil laughs off the blow and fights back with fire and brimstone.
  — Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• The noodles carry all of that fire and brimstone from the bowl to your mouth.
  — Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
• In Schiff’s hands, the threat carried traces of fire and brimstone.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2020
• And as this season has spiraled, it’s failed to bring out any fire and brimstone.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
• Warne would not have approved of watering down fire and brimstone.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
• The last time Pat saw Ron, there was none of the fire and brimstone of his more combative moments.
  — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
• The works that seduce our ears most, or the ones that most effectively scare the dickens out of us with visions of fire and brimstone?
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• Antunes’ riffs are uncannily matched to Copeland’s fire and brimstone.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 1 Dec. 2020
• As with his discussion of the Combs charges, Williams didn’t add any fire and brimstone to his delivery.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
• So there’s the Old Testament, where the catastrophes were more fire and brimstone.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
• Carroll was very good at that, merging positivity with fire and brimstone when it was required.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
• Where was the fire and brimstone yelling and screaming because promptness is something every head coach demands of his players?
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2020
• One researcher made a connection between earthquakes and a Bible story of fire and brimstone.
  — National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• Last year at Orlando and then at Dallas, these speakers spoke in voices full of fire and brimstone.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
• According to community lore, the area got its name because of a forest fire in the days of fire and brimstone sermons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Saccone is not some jackleg preacher who wandered barefoot out of the woods one day, calling down fire and brimstone on the unworldly.
  — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• The parishioners are respectable, restrained people who don’t like to hear stuff about fire and brimstone from the pulpit on Sunday mornings.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• The good times were not to last, as the rockstar playground of Montserrat was destroyed—not by fire and brimstone, but first by drenching rains, then by molten lava.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
• The British starlet unloads fire and brimstone in an emotional delivery that will be cited as one of her most commanding scenes.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Harriet was the seventh of 13 children in a family of prominent ministers who did more than just preach fire and brimstone.
  — Dinaw Mengestu, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2021
• Lead singer Brandon Coleman’s fire and brimstone vocals tie it all together, and hint at the undercurrent of faith that runs through the band.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
• The segment, which actually happened, upsets the fire and brimstone Baptists that Jim is trying to impress.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• Kiser didn’t want to get into too much detail about the fire and brimstone Freeman spewed the day before kickoff when the 38-year-old head coach showed that this program has a weapon leading it.
  — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
• After a brutal loss to Stanford, players expected fire and brimstone from McKay, who was hardly the warm, cuddly type.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• Despite the book’s title, Old Scratch never makes a personal appearance, wearing red horns and brandishing fire and brimstone.
  — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2020
• The Biden administration should bolster public media in order to provide more sober alternatives to the fire and brimstone of cable news.
  — Nina Jankowicz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2020
• After that, this hybrid man-bot is consigned — with no ambiguity whatsoever — to the fire and brimstone of the biblical underworld.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
• But the Academy loves a lecture—especially one delivered with fire and brimstone—so expect this one to take home Best Picture.
  — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 27 Feb. 2018
• Much of the fire and brimstone coming from the presidential palace actually strikes the very poor indigenous people trapped between the government and the communists.
  — Vincent Bevins, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2018
• The script, though, is still too schematic about it all; this was true of the original, too, though that movie’s coolness, contra Fuqua’s literal fire and brimstone, hid its deficits far more successfully.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2021