SULPHUR in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for SULPHUR, such as:
1. It steams and glitters blue with sulphur.
2. They fell a strong odor of sulphur emanate from the spring.
3. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind, and set up a train of thinking.
4. The hard air was still sulphurous, but they were both used to it.
5. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
2. They fell a strong odor of sulphur emanate from the spring.
3. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind, and set up a train of thinking.
4. The hard air was still sulphurous, but they were both used to it.
5. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
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Meanings and Examples of SULPHUR
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sulphur
v. treat with sulphur in order to preserve
n. an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
Classic Sentence:
1 It steams and glitters blue with sulphur.
2 But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.
3 When the rock and refuse of the underworld had burned and given off its sulphur, it turned bright pink, shrimp-coloured on dry days, darker, crab-coloured on wet.
4 This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
5 Yet the sulphur hung in my mind, and set up a train of thinking.
6 She brought the fire and sulphur, as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters and both the inner and outer courts.
7 But the corpses are now all piled up in the gatehouse that is in the outer court, and Ulysses has lit a great fire to purify the house with sulphur.
8 Even old Dr. Fontaine admitted that he was puzzled, after his tonic of sulphur, molasses and herbs failed to perk her up.
9 The globe does not perish, because it has these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor because of a volcano which ejects its pus.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
10 And when the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth's excrement.
11 The hard air was still sulphurous, but they were both used to it.
12 But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.
13 The air was oppressive; it seemed as if there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made me dizzy.
Example Sentence:
1 The US and Europe are both moving to low sulphur fuels for emissions reasons, but it is a beneficial ingredient for the engine.
2 They fell a strong odor of sulphur emanate from the spring.