How to Use fire and brimstone in a Sentence

fire and brimstone

noun
  • The Devil laughs off the blow and fights back with fire and brimstone.
    — Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • In Schiff’s hands, the threat carried traces of fire and brimstone.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The noodles carry all of that fire and brimstone from the bowl to your mouth.
    — Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The last time Pat saw Ron, there was none of the fire and brimstone of his more combative moments.
    — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
  • And not the fire and brimstone Old Testament perdition.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • So there’s the Old Testament, where the catastrophes were more fire and brimstone.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • As with his discussion of the Combs charges, Williams didn’t add any fire and brimstone to his delivery.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The works that seduce our ears most, or the ones that most effectively scare the dickens out of us with visions of fire and brimstone?
    — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Warne would not have approved of watering down fire and brimstone.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Last year at Orlando and then at Dallas, these speakers spoke in voices full of fire and brimstone.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The good times were not to last, as the rockstar playground of Montserrat was destroyed—not by fire and brimstone, but first by drenching rains, then by molten lava.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
  • According to community lore, the area got its name because of a forest fire in the days of fire and brimstone sermons.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The parishioners are respectable, restrained people who don’t like to hear stuff about fire and brimstone from the pulpit on Sunday mornings.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • One researcher made a connection between earthquakes and a Bible story of fire and brimstone.
    — National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Where was the fire and brimstone yelling and screaming because promptness is something every head coach demands of his players?
    — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2020
  • Kiser didn’t want to get into too much detail about the fire and brimstone Freeman spewed the day before kickoff when the 38-year-old head coach showed that this program has a weapon leading it.
    — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Lead singer Brandon Coleman’s fire and brimstone vocals tie it all together, and hint at the undercurrent of faith that runs through the band.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Antunes’ riffs are uncannily matched to Copeland’s fire and brimstone.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Saccone is not some jackleg preacher who wandered barefoot out of the woods one day, calling down fire and brimstone on the unworldly.
    — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
  • The Bengals better hope that’s what happens, because the alternative would produce a brand of fire and brimstone this fan base hasn’t unleashed since 2010.
    — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Despite the medieval fire and brimstone that follows, Flight of the Conchords star Clement ensures the peril stays at kid-friendly levels of pantomime villainy.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 July 2024
  • The British starlet unloads fire and brimstone in an emotional delivery that will be cited as one of her most commanding scenes.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The segment, which actually happened, upsets the fire and brimstone Baptists that Jim is trying to impress.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Carroll was very good at that, merging positivity with fire and brimstone when it was required.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • This wasn’t the fire and brimstone of fundamentalism; this was the joyful, big-tent-style Christianity of Billy Graham.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2025
  • After a brutal loss to Stanford, players expected fire and brimstone from McKay, who was hardly the warm, cuddly type.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Harriet was the seventh of 13 children in a family of prominent ministers who did more than just preach fire and brimstone.
    — Dinaw Mengestu, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2021
  • The script, though, is still too schematic about it all; this was true of the original, too, though that movie’s coolness, contra Fuqua’s literal fire and brimstone, hid its deficits far more successfully.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2021
  • But the Academy loves a lecture—especially one delivered with fire and brimstone—so expect this one to take home Best Picture.
    — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Despite the book’s title, Old Scratch never makes a personal appearance, wearing red horns and brandishing fire and brimstone.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2020

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