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

And once the stars are out, the fire pits come to life, where kids of all ages can enjoy s’mores by grabbing a kit from the front desk.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
Rentals for tents, tables, chairs, heaters and fire pits added up to more than $50,600.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 July 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

Six young women — hair fashionably bobbed, shins covered by knee-high socks — posed in dark, modest swimming suits in the tiled abyss of an empty swimming pool.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
This week, Gracie Abrams pens a tearjerker on mother-daughter relationships, Steve Lacy escapes the abyss of a breakup on a colossal double track, and Beabadoobee contemplates risk and reward on a fuzzy new single.

— Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026

Definition of abyss

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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.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
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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