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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire and brimstone
Noun
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The Hatches lined a 6-foot pit with rocks and mortar and kept building higher — extending the walls 16 feet high inside their family barn.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
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There’s also a sand pit where children can dig up replicas of pygmy mammoth bones.—
Deborah Netburn,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
Noun
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The first came just after the season, when veteran coach Rick Bowness, who is brimming with hellfire to change the losing culture in Columbus, signed on for at least another season behind the Blue Jackets’ bench.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Floridians seem intent, however, on creating their own personal version of hellfire.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 May 2026
Noun
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They are lost in the abyss of the deep ocean, unable to recognize themselves or their surroundings, overwhelmed and terrified.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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According to sources, the contest in fact nearly tipped into the abyss with an additional half-dozen countries poised to pull out over the Israel inclusion.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
Noun
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Misprisions of this kind were more likely to occur, the experts argued, in religious settings marked by the rigorous policing of strict ethical injunctions or an emphasis on particular states of mind as markers of grace or perdition.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Mar. 2026
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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
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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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