How to Use sulfur in a Sentence

sulfur

noun

• Here the glamour of the 50s meets the sulfur of the 70s.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 13 Mar. 2023
• Two of the 16 CSX train cars that derailed were breached, spilling molten sulfur.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Change the oxygen to a sulfur, and the conditions change yet again.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
• Mounds of what looked like grain had spilled from the train cars and molten sulfur, like lava, crawled across the grass.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• There were three asphalt cars and four sulfur cars in the river.
  — Time, 25 June 2023
• The air reeked of sulfur and was tinged with burning asphalt.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 3 Oct. 2022
• Worth a shot as well: lactic acid and sulfur, which help keep pores clear.
  — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• If the test proves the soil is alkaline, amend it with sulfur or pine needles.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
• The rail cars that fell in the water contained asphalt, molten sulfur and scrap metal, the EPA said.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 2 July 2023
• Just dab some on with a cotton swab and let the mixture of salicylic acid and sulfur do their thing.
  — Lacey Muinos, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• The viewer floats over slums, a strip mine, an artisanal sulfur mine.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The sulfur and tephra of a large eruption can also rain down on Earth's poles, where they are preserved in layers of ice.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• The low amount of sulfur in the Georgia soil in which they are grown helps give them a particularly sweet taste.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• That is roughly the same amount of (elemental) sulfur as Pinatubo but with no change.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• Bath County got its title in 1811 from the many springs in the area, and likewise, Spa, in Logan County was named for the abundance of sulfur springs.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
• The sulfur would be burned and mixed with water to produce as much as 5,800 tons of toxic sulfuric acid each day.
  — Daniel Moore, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
• The smell of volcanic gases and sulfur was thick along Saddle Road, where people watched the wide stream of lava creep closer.
  — Gregory Bull and Andrew Selsky, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• This sulfur compound is completely different from the compound that gives the onion its smell and strong taste.
  — Mark Kurlansky, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2023
• The brand is Acella, which contains sodium sulfacetamide and sulfur with green tea and aloe.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 16 Nov. 2022
• The story gets even better because the crude under Guyanese waters has low sulfur content, the opposite of the tar that comes out of Venezuela.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• These tiny clusters of iron ions and sulfur ions at the heart of ancient proteins are like little minerals.
  — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2022
• Pouring out of the volcanoes at the same time were vast amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur, sowing climate chaos.
  — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
• In this case, one of the two blocks was based on a carbon/sulfur compound; this polymer alone served as a control material.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 July 2022
• The baths themselves — broad, chest-deep pools surrounded by porous lava rock — smell of the sulfur that’s said to relax and restore bathers.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2022
• For decades this area has been kept relatively cool by sulfur emissions from ships.
  — Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• Others want to release sulfur into the atmosphere akin to the way volcanoes work, which would cool things down.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Nov. 2022
• Two of the 16 cars that derailed carried molten sulfur, which caught fire after the cars were breached, CSX said in a previous statement Wednesday.
  — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Most of the health benefits found in garlic come from the sulfur compound allicin which is released when garlic is cut, crushed or chewed.
  — Amy Fischer Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2022
• Yellow or brown in color, neem oil has a distinctive garlic and sulfur scent.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 10 July 2023
• Airplanes would spray sulfur into the sky at high altitude.
  — Michael Birnbaum, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024