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Recent Examples of sulfurous
The secret to keeping it tasty and not sulfurous is to barely cook the broccoli.
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Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Mar. 2026
As a boy growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil refinery town of sulfurous air, Rauschenberg often wore clothes his mother had patched together from assorted fabric scraps.
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Feb. 2026
The sulfurous scent of hell wafted on the sea breeze.
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Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
Reaction fronts were enriched with iron, phosphorous, and sulfurous compounds.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Mar. 2026
As a boy growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil refinery town of sulfurous air, Rauschenberg often wore clothes his mother had patched together from assorted fabric scraps.
—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Feb. 2026
The sulfurous scent of hell wafted on the sea breeze.
—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
Reaction fronts were enriched with iron, phosphorous, and sulfurous compounds.
—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sulfurous
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Linda Cardellini offers up a killer breakdown to the roaring chorus of the lawn guy’s infernal leaf blower.
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But in the case of the Rockies in recent years, that’s just been infernal noise.
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It’s been a hellish week across South Florida.
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Others have been wounded, detained by military forces or stuck at sea in hellish conditions.
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Aeacus, a judge of the dead, and Thanatos, winged daemon of death, are chthonic.
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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.
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“Sulfurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulfurous. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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