How to Use sulfur in a Sentence

sulfur

noun
  • The air was smokey and acrid, overwhelmed by the scent of sulfur.
    — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2020
  • On the flip side, sulfur is very cheap and fairly easy to work with.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
  • If your soil is limestone-based, amend it with a bit of sulfur.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 27 May 2026
  • Sometimes, the odor can smell like sulfur.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
  • When your body breaks down these compounds, some of that sulfur can end up in your urine.
    — Caroline Hopkins Legaspi, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Some limit the amount of sulfur added to a wine in the cellar.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
  • There were three asphalt cars and four sulfur cars in the river.
    — Time, 25 June 2023
  • The air reeked of sulfur and was tinged with burning asphalt.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Also, a great zinc sulfur mask is a must for me at the moment as well.
    — Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Soon the camp erupted into smoke, flame and the smell of sulfur.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • When Shippy fled, the ghost hurled stones that smelled of sulfur.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 27 Oct. 2017
  • But the chemistry has been tricky as both sulfur and lithium can be volatile.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • These openings are just for lithium ions to pass, but block sulfur chains.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And, even more oddly, there was sulfur on the surface of the white dwarf as well.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The pH can be decreased with sulfur and increased with the use of lime.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The oil from Venezuela has much sulfur and is costly to clean and refine.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • If the test proves the soil is alkaline, amend it with sulfur or pine needles.
    — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
  • Scientists were surprised not to find traces of sulfur in the core.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2019
  • One is an octasulfur crown, a ring made of eight sulfur atoms.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Change the oxygen to a sulfur, and the conditions change yet again.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The rover ran over and broke open a stunning rock full of yellow sulfur crystals last year.
    — Amanda Kooser, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • The viewer floats over slums, a strip mine, an artisanal sulfur mine.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Less alluring for some can be the vegetable’s sulfur-bomb heart.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The mask smells like rotten eggs, but the mix of sulfur and zinc always clears my skin within a day.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Both of those compounds contain sulfur.
    — Felicia Feaster, Martha Stewart, 20 June 2026
  • The water, just above lukewarm and smelling of sulfur, fizzed lightly.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Bad One of the first signs your potting soil has gone bad is a rotten egg or sulfur smell.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 3 Mar. 2026

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