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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.
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Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
23 Nov. 2025
And as this season has spiraled, it’s failed to bring out any fire and brimstone.
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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.
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Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
23 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for fire and brimstone
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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One of the most pit-dropping experiences is getting to your destination after a long-haul flight and not being able to use or charge any of your devices—something flight attendants can’t risk as people who consistently travel abroad.
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The spirit was fermented in earthen pits and distilled, a process that took a year across eight fermentations and seven distillations.
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.
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Floridians seem intent, however, on creating their own personal version of hellfire.
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While the Kings have plenty on the flank after the February addition of Artemi Panarin, Kuzmenko was a positive contributor when healthy and trusted last season, while their needs in the middle are less of a hole and more of an abyss.
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The drugs seem more like a trip into the abyss instead of a gateway to euphoria.
Noun
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Under cover of awkward teen dancing, the pair slipped into the library, riffled through the card catalog, and discovered, in addition to Soul on Ice, eight other volumes in PONY-U perdition.
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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.
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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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