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Recent Examples of sulfurous
Even for people like me who enjoy transforming leftovers into rocket fuel for their garden, composting can turn into a foul, stinking, sulfurous mess.
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Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The water’s sulfurous smell prevents anyone from actually chugging the stuff.
—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
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Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The water’s sulfurous smell prevents anyone from actually chugging the stuff.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sulfurous
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On Wednesday, New York HUT levels were up nearly 10% compared to the previous week, when the air didn’t feel (and smell) like some sort of infernal fish chowder.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
27 June 2025
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Climbing 18,000 feet, through knee-deep snow in some years, and descending more than 23,000 feet into infernal canyons with temps bubbling up to 120 degrees, WSER isn’t a feat for mere mortals.—
Miriam Schwartz,
Boston Herald,
25 June 2025
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After the discovery of Venus' true nature, when a planet thought to be a swampy, humid world was revealed as a hellish place of intense pressure and searing temperatures, Mars seemed almost welcoming.—
Rod Pyle,
Space.com,
14 July 2025
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Badwater is renowned not just for its distance but for its hellish conditions, with temperatures often soaring above 120 degrees and runners reporting hallucinations, blood blisters and feet swollen three sizes beyond normal.—
James Rainey
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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As for the chthonic powers who might intrude upon us, the worst must be the Titans, primeval offspring of Gaia and Uranus, Earth and Sky.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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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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“Sulfurous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sulfurous. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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