How to Use belladonna in a Sentence

belladonna

noun

• That was after the FDA found varying amounts of belladonna in the products.
  — Ars Technica, SELF, 22 Aug. 2017
• Stay away from teething tablets that contain the plant poison belladonna and gels with benzocaine.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2019
• Know your ash from alder, your atropa belladonna from solanum nigrum?
  — OregonLive.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• One of the doctors called in to consult thought poisoning seemed likely, perhaps by opium or belladonna.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2022
• There's the Deadly Nightshade (atropa belladonna) with berries that can easily kill.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2017
• Some of those products were found to contain harmful ingredients, such as belladonna, which can be toxic.
  — Andrea Park, SELF, 18 Dec. 2017
• Set out bulbs like Amaryllis belladonna, nerine, pineapple lily (Eucomis) canna, and calla.
  — Sunset Magazine, 3 Aug. 2020
• The nightshades have an ominous reputation, but this large plant family is more than just its most poisonous members, like belladonna.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2017
• In the most high-profile case, homeopathic teething products were found to contain toxic belladonna, aka deadly nightshade.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2018
• Many of the products were said to contain toxic substances, including belladonna, mercurius solubilis (mercury), and plumbum aceticum (lead).
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 June 2020
• Even so, they were still regarded with skepticism and fear because botanists recognized them as relatives of the poisonous nightshade, belladonna.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
• In that case, FDA investigators confirmed that the products contained variable and sometimes high levels of toxic belladonna, aka deadly nightshade, which can have harmful and unpredictable effects in infants.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
• Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) takes after plants like belladonna, a notoriously toxic relation.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 27 July 2017
• Concentrated Medicinal Fluid Extracts contained belladonna, arsenic and mercury.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021

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