FIRE AND BRIMSTONE Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

fire and brimstone

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as in pit

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Recent Examples of fire and brimstone From his pulpit, Wicks rains down selectively vituperative fire and brimstone, with an eye toward provoking walkouts from unsuspecting visitors—say, a gay couple or a single mom. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025 Writer-director Rian Johnson, 51, offers not one but two clerics – Josh O’Connor’s young priest and Josh Brolin’s fire and brimstone grey-bearded Monsignor – plus Glenn Close’s indispensable church lady in an upstate New York small-town community. — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for fire and brimstone

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Noun

Logano and Larson will be on the front row Sunday, while Christopher Bell and Carson Hocevar — fresh off a pit-lane fracas with Ryan Blaney — will be behind them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
On the last nights of the occupation, troops burned more than 400 tons of waste in open air burn pits, ostensibly for security reasons.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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This is, of course, the conception of fundamentalist theology, which threatens eternal hellfire for anyone who defies its commandments.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Should designers, who work in an industry that is one of the biggest culprits for greenhouse gas emissions, at least be making clothes that people could reasonably aspire to wear in the hellfire summers to come?

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 29 June 2026

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