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
• The air was smokey and acrid, overwhelmed by the scent of sulfur.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2020
• Light a match, wait a second for the sulfur to burn off, then hold the flame near the top of your glass.
  — Rebekah Peppler, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Among the challenges is that oil from the Persian Gulf tends to have more sulfur.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 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
• Also, a great zinc sulfur mask is a must for me at the moment as well.
  — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Nov. 2021
• The air reeked of sulfur and was tinged with burning asphalt.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 3 Oct. 2022
• Plus, the lower the sulfur, the less your eyeballs suffer.
  — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 18 July 2024
• Worth a shot as well: lactic acid and sulfur, which help keep pores clear.
  — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• But the chemistry has been tricky as both sulfur and lithium can be volatile.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 July 2024
• The ratios of iron to sulfur, and iron to potassium, are not the same, either.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2021
• First, oil can be sour or sweet,a range that indicates how much sulfur is in the crude.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Even as the smell of sulfur wafted through the streets, more than 100 people waited in line to join the civilian reserve force.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2022
• Her large dowry could then be invested in his sulfur mine.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
• 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 Clean Air Act of 1990 helped limit sulfur emissions and levels began to fall.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The microbes used both arsenic and sulfur, but preferred the arsenic.
  — Brendan Paul Burns, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2020
• It’s the kind of device that a freight locomotive would use to hook up with a tanker of molten sulfur or boxcar of beer.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• That is roughly the same amount of (elemental) sulfur as Pinatubo but with no change.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• In 2000, Pemex launched a plan to clean up the Texistepec sulfur mine site.
  — Palabra, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
• Tonsil stones give off an unpleasant smell due to the sulfur compounds emitted by the bacteria living on them, explains Klenoff.
  — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• The final step was to look at sulfur isotopes, as impact melting tends to preferentially release the lighter isotope, altering the ratio compared to intact lunar rocks.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024