How to Use cyanide in a Sentence

cyanide

noun

• Cooking the fruit with the pits (seeds) in will rid it of the toxic cyanide.
  — Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
• Hitler, in fact, took cyanide and a bullet to the temple.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2022
• The company does not plan to use cyanide to extract the gold.
  — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Oct. 2017
• The seeds contain trace amounts of cyanide, which can be poisonous to dogs.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• Tests were conducted on the medicine, and it was revealed that cyanide was present in the pills.
  — Hunter Patterson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• No one was ever charged in the deaths of seven people who took the over-the-counter painkillers laced with cyanide.
  — Mark Pratt, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• Some are captured using squirts of cyanide to stun them.
  — Victoria Milko, Firdia Lisnawati, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2022
• But when cyanide enters the mix, things go downhill—fast.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
• Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun poisoned themselves with cyanide in a bunker in Berlin.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
• The health care killers used insulin, heart drugs or poisons such as cyanide.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
• Astronomers have also spotted traces of cyanide in the comet's wake.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2020
• The only instance was in 1974 when a man put cyanide in his own son's candy, but not a stranger.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
• Doctors found high levels of cyanide in de Ruyter’s body.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
• Giant pandas absorbed more than 65 percent of the cyanide present in the shoots.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2018
• The compounds in the leaves release cyanide when eaten, so keep the plant away from small children or pets.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
• Buried in a pot plant his wife had thrown out was a plastic bag containing traces of cyanide.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
• Back then, an 8-year-old died after eating Pixy Stix laced with cyanide.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
• Dogs don’t grind their teeth to chew, so the small amount of cyanide in the pits and seeds isn’t much of a worry in terms of poisoning, Wismer said.
  — Washington Post, 4 May 2022
• Shredding mimics the chewing of pests, causing the release of the root’s cyanide and cyanohydrins.
  — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
• The comet's green glow is due to cyanide and carbon molecules becoming ionized by the warmth of the sun.
  — Temi Adebowale, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2018
• But experts noted that a massive dose of cyanide will kill in from 1 to 15 minutes.
  — Jack Houston and Jean Latz Griffin, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• The results came back positive for cyanide at 1:30 a.m.
  — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
• The seeds in apples contain cyanide, which is toxic, and the core can act as a choking hazard for dogs of all size.
  — Jackie Frere, Woman's Day, 2 Apr. 2019
• An eight-year-old boy died in 1984 after eating candy that had been laced with cyanide.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2022
• No cyanide was detected on two of the water testing days.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Poachers in Zimbabwe have used cyanide to kill dozens of elephants for their ivory tusks.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2017
• What's two inches long, has dozens of yellow legs, and oozes a cyanide toxin that smells like cherries?
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 May 2021
• Through the dark Web, Fenech tried to buy cyanide and a pistol with a silencer, but neither transaction went through.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• The action of the water releases more cyanide, nitriles and cyanohydrins, and squeezing rinses them away.
  — Stephen Wooding, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
• In dogs, cyanide prevents blood cells from receiving ample oxygen.
  — Abigail Beck, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024