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Recent Examples of fire and brimstone
How to commemorate a religious sect that was unique, tolerant, forward-thinking, unjustly antagonized—but also short-lived, cultish, poorly documented, and fixated on fire and brimstone?
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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.
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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.
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Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
23 Nov. 2025
And as this season has spiraled, it’s failed to bring out any fire and brimstone.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for fire and brimstone
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for fire and brimstone
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire and brimstone
Noun
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One of the most pit-dropping experiences is getting to your destination after a long-haul flight and not being able to use or charge any of your devices—something flight attendants can’t risk as people who consistently travel abroad.
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The spirit was fermented in earthen pits and distilled, a process that took a year across eight fermentations and seven distillations.
Noun
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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?
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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.
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While the Kings have plenty on the flank after the February addition of Artemi Panarin, Kuzmenko was a positive contributor when healthy and trusted last season, while their needs in the middle are less of a hole and more of an abyss.
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The drugs seem more like a trip into the abyss instead of a gateway to euphoria.
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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.
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Sloth, after all, is a deadly sin, and it was often seen as the first step on the slippery slope to perdition.
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“Fire and brimstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20and%20brimstone. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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