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Recent Examples of sulfurous
The water’s sulfurous smell prevents anyone from actually chugging the stuff.
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Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
The skunk ape, alias swamp ape, apparently smells like bad eggs and goat dung, an odor attributed to its poor bathing habits and penchant for sulfurous alligator caves.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
Scientists think sulfurous compounds such as sulfur dioxide might have played a key role on early Earth that eventually paved the way for life to form.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
The team used soda pulping as one part of the process—boiling the raw material in lye as opposed to the sulfurous byproducts found in traditional (kraft) pulping—to make manufacturing more sustainable.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
The skunk ape, alias swamp ape, apparently smells like bad eggs and goat dung, an odor attributed to its poor bathing habits and penchant for sulfurous alligator caves.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
Scientists think sulfurous compounds such as sulfur dioxide might have played a key role on early Earth that eventually paved the way for life to form.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
The team used soda pulping as one part of the process—boiling the raw material in lye as opposed to the sulfurous byproducts found in traditional (kraft) pulping—to make manufacturing more sustainable.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sulfurous
Adjective
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There, the adults mate, and the mass erupts like an infernal, infectious volcano, spewing out eggs.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
13 Aug. 2025
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Roughly once a week, Nick Cave blogs about music, religion, grief, and the infernal state of world affairs through the medium of fan correspondence in his Red Hand Files newsletter.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
29 July 2025
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Universal Hollywood’s 2023 Holidayz in Hell maze took guests through hellish versions of celebrations like Thanksgiving, where the turkey got its revenge on a family as the savory smells of the traditional dinner and fixings filled the room.—
Julie Tremaine,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Say hello to Earth's hellish twin!—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Aeacus, a judge of the dead, and Thanatos, winged daemon of death, are chthonic.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Sulfurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulfurous. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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