How to Use biological weapon in a Sentence

biological weapon

noun

• Some fear that it could also be used to make a biological weapon.
  — Fortune, 27 June 2018
• Instead of the monstrous-looking biological weapon ripped from the pages of the comics, Annable's Reign is much more humanized.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017
• Washington had suffered through a case of smallpox and was concerned the British would use the disease as a biological weapon.
  — Anna Rothschild, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
• Or its missiles, its stockpiles of VX and other nerve agents, or its biological weapons.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2018
• The Space Force could do little to stop an asymmetric attack with a biological weapon.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2018
• Much about the arsenal is uncertain; and even less is known about the North’s chemical and biological weapons, among them the deadly VX nerve agent.
  — Daniel Nasaw, WSJ, 13 June 2018
• The findings confirmed the virus was not created as a biological weapon.
  — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2021
• The same strategy was used by proponents of the treaties that banned chemical and biological weapons, land mines and cluster bombs.
  — Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• The first is if the research is intended to develop a biological weapon.
  — David Gillum, The Conversation, 21 June 2021
• Because aphids are major pests on farms and in gardens, researchers have turned A. ervi into a biological weapon against them.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2012
• These days the northern regime could load its artillery with chemical and biological weapons.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2017
• Our spies also aver that the virus wasn’t developed as a biological weapon and that Chinese officials weren’t aware of the virus before the initial outbreak.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
• But Serhiy Komisarenko, one of Ukraine’s leading experts in biological weapons, said the money was never enough to cease the flow of personnel.
  — Simon Shuster / Dnipro, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• Treaties banning biological weapons and land mines are successes that don’t work.
  — Konstantin Kakaes, WSJ, 26 June 2018
• The intelligence agencies all agreed that the virus was unlikely to have been created as any kind of biological weapon, the same stance the U.S. government has maintained for more than a year.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The Cold War saw treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, using the environment as a weapon and placing nuclear weapons in space or on the seabed.
  — Paul Scharre, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
• There’s long been a conspiracy theory that the US used ticks as a biological weapon to spread Lyme disease.
  — Catherine Kim, Vox, 18 July 2019
• The House ordered the Pentagon to investigate whether ticks were once used as biological weapons.
  — Dylan Bouscher, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
• An open question, said the former official, is how and whether to press Kim to account for and relinquish his chemical and biological weapons.
  — NBC News, 29 May 2018
• The laboratory involved was asked to identify the source of the biological weapon deployed at a politician's office, home, and car.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2014
• As with computer viruses or biological weapons, the threat from deepfakes is now a permanent feature on the landscape.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 27 June 2019
• There were some areas of broad agreement in the report, including that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon and that Chinese officials did not know about the virus before the outbreak occurred.
  — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2021
• It has been confirmed that the system will protect against a wide range of threats – even including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 18 June 2018
• Third, although North Korea does have an biological weapons program, it’s been eclipsed by the country’s nuclear program.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• Ford recounts how some State Department officials latched onto the premise that the virus had been developed by the Chinese government as a biological weapon.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• The sanctions do include a presumption of denial for export licenses for items that could be used in the production of chemical and biological weapons.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2019
• Many Korea experts have cast grave doubt on the odds of winning a pact in the one-day summit that would compel Kim to give up his complete arsenal of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in short order.
  — Matt Stiles, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• Of course, the denuclearization and nuclear weapons and biological weapons is one problem in North Korea.
  — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 12 June 2018
• Officials said that meant Customs might not have enough time to identify items that could be bombs or chemical or biological weapons until the plane was already on its way to a U.S. destination.
  — David Koenig, Fox News, 12 June 2018
• There is agreement in the U.S. intelligence community that China did not create the coronavirus in a lab as a biological weapon.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 27 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024