How to Use sulfuric in a Sentence

sulfuric

adjective
  • There’s a late sweetness that lingers and a vaguely sulfuric smell, like bathing in an actual hot spring.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • While these chemicals tend to have an unpleasant, sulfuric odor to them, this one has a light floral scent.
    — Danielle Jackson, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Rather, the coloration comes from high quantities of sulfuric gas emerging with the lava.
    — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The summit is a barren ash field, gray and treeless, scoured by sulfuric gas and acidic rain that burns whatever tries to grow.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • While saline, sometimes sulfuric notes are what make a beachy scent realistic, they shouldn’t be used in isolation.
    — Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 3 June 2026
  • Residents also were warned to watch out for dangerous levels of sulfuric gas.
    — Caleb Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2018
  • Residents were also warned to watch out for dangerous levels of sulfuric gas.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2018
  • Authorities said one of the attacks involved a knife and the other involved sulfuric acid.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 May 2017
  • Visitors can explore hot turquoise pools, hissing sulfuric vents, and boiling mudpots from the safety of the trail.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Chevron's network of pipes, low-lying cooling ponds and even sulfuric stench have become defining parts of the town's character.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • It's fed by natural springs, leaving my skin feeling silky with minerals, but not without a sulfuric aroma.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Local women flock here to dip in the sulfuric water, as it's believed to increase fertility.
    — Lola Méndez, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • In that situation, sulfuric gases burned parallel to lava, which gave off an electric blue glow.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • Also called bit noon, among other names, its color (which is actually more red than black) and eggy, sulfuric aroma comes from iron-sulfide.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The scene with the wildest set for me was when Mulan meets one-on-one with the witch, Xian Lang, in these sort of thermal, sulfuric pools.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The bubbly water is salty with a sulfuric aftertaste, as if your taste buds have visited the Bath District.
    — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2025
  • Stainless steel, magically enough, can bond with those sulfuric elements.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 27 June 2020
  • Officials warned of the dangers of spattering hot rock and high levels of sulfuric gas that could threaten the elderly and people with breathing problems.
    — Bloomberg.com, 6 May 2018
  • Among them was Arc, which was criticized just two years ago for storing sulfuric acid in its above-ground tanks without first seeking city approval or reaching out to the community.
    — John Sharp, AL.com, 23 May 2017
  • Until now, wastewaters were neutralized with sulfuric or hydrochloric acid before discharge.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The dense atmosphere shrouding Venus with toxic sulfuric yellow clouds has made the planet's surface difficult, but not impossible to peer through.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Authorities already had closed a long stretch of Highway 130, one of the main arteries through Puna, because of the threat of sulfuric gas.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • Fed by the mineral-rich springs of Yumoto onsen, the sulfuric water is a toasty 104 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.
    — Paul Jebara, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The reason for these sweltering temperatures is Venus' thick carbon-dioxide atmosphere that is dotted with sulfuric acid clouds; the atmosphere traps much more heat than our own does.
    — Tia Ghose Senior Writer, Fox News, 7 July 2017
  • The vivid electric-blue color of flows down the side of Indonesian volcano Kawah Ijen is actually caused by sulfuric gas released at the same time as plain-old basaltic lava.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2015
  • Venus' atmosphere is rightfully famous for a combination of being stunningly hot and containing sulfuric acid.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
  • Before Pristine was a waste disposal facility, the facility made sulfuric acid.
    — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Acid rain is formed when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere react with oxygen, water and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids, which can dissolve in water vapor.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
  • On 22 June, Russia’s Raikoke volcano blasted ash and sulfuric gas 17 kilometers into the stratosphere.
    — Alex Fox, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2019
  • In the late 1800s, White Springs was the state’s hot vacation destination as visitors sought the restorative qualities of its sulfuric springs.
    — Julie Creswell, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020

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