fire and brimstone

noun

Definition of fire and brimstonenext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire and brimstone
  1. pit
  2. hellfire
  3. abyss
  4. perdition
Noun
  • It was then left to the two Mercedes drivers to swap the lead back and forth for several laps, only for that to cause concern on the team’s pit wall due to Verstappen’s continued presence.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • At the time, Lukas was working to pass the PACT Act, a law expanding health care benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange and other hazards during overseas deployments.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of pit
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of hellfire
Noun
  • That abyss, by the way, has spit out 19 seniors being selected to the Hall in the last seven years.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • More than anything, the problem lies in the execution — as an absolutely catastrophic event effectively ejects Coulter and Fetters’ main character from his own story and into the abyss of early 2000s political turmoil.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of abyss
Noun
  • On one page, tiny, antlike sinners tumbled down a cliff toward perdition.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
  • 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.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Definition of perdition

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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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