How to Use sulfur in a Sentence

sulfur

noun
Definition of sulfurnext
  • Here the glamour of the 50s meets the sulfur of the 70s.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 13 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The green tinge results from a chemical reaction between the sulfur in the egg white and the hydrogen in the yolk.
    — USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Bath County got its title in 1811 from the many springs in the area, and likewise, Spa, in Logan County was named for the abundance of sulfur springs.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Chicxulub impactor struck a carbonate platform on Earth, which released sulfur into the atmosphere.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 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

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