fire and brimstone

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Recent Examples of fire and brimstone And as this season has spiraled, it’s failed to bring out any fire and brimstone. Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025 If that’s not exactly fire and brimstone coming from Reid, such is the public persona of the fourth-winningest coach in NFL history. Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2025 But the album is not all fire and brimstone. Juan Velasquez, Them., 4 Apr. 2025 Despite all the progressive fire and brimstone descending on Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency is making only a down payment on shrinking the administrative state. Robert J. Delahunty, National Review, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fire and brimstone
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire and brimstone
Noun
  • Burn pits were a common method to dispose of waste up until around 2010, according to the VA.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
  • There was seating around a fire pit.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Mahon ran Channel 4 for eight years and is seen as a savvy political and commercial operator, who is sure-footed under scrutiny — all attributes that would serve her well in the hellfire moments that often come with running the BBC.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Bang does better with the grotesquerie of hellfire, where lowballing the tone can have a sharp, often comic edge.
    Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Some players should be allowed to spin their wheels in the abyss, so if that’s what Antetokounmpo wants to do, then let him.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Kicked out, Eleven and Kali head to the abyss instead, joining the others to fight Vecna there.
    Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Sloth, after all, is a deadly sin, and it was often seen as the first step on the slippery slope to perdition.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • California policymakers continue to make laws and allow regulators to contrive rules that make California a land of perdition rather than destination for enterprise because they have been captured by left-of-center interests.
    Kerry Jackson, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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