How to Use defoliant in a Sentence

defoliant

noun

• The runways for B-52 Stratofortress bombers taking off were choked with jungles, and the defoliant sprayed around his tent sparked skin and gastrointestinal problems.
  — Alex Horton, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The largest group served in the Vietnam era, where 2.8 million veterans were exposed to Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant linked to cancer.
  — Popular Science, 11 Nov. 2020
• A man was preparing a cotton defoliant by mixing diesel oil with penta.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• The wrangler on Hollywood film sets was exposed to the toxic chemical defoliant during his service in Vietnam in the early 1970s.
  — John Rogers, The Seattle Times, 30 Apr. 2017
• The Vietnam War brought the helicopter gunship, napalm, and chemical defoliants.
  — David Oshinsky, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Sailors will volunteer at a protection center for victims of Agent Orange, a defoliant used by U.S. forces during the war that caused deformities and birth defects in children.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
• What's more, the firefighters were disproportionately likely to have a type of this disease that was also more common among veterans who were exposed to the cancer-causing chemical defoliant known as Agent Orange, the study authors noted.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The most infamous of these facilities produced nearly a million gallons of Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant whose extensive use during the Vietnam War has caused generations of suffering.
  — Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
• That represented an upgrade from a previous recommendation that there was inadequate or insufficient evidence to link the diseases to the toxic herbicides used as defoliants in Vietnam.
  — Fox News, 26 Oct. 2019
• The haphazard method of incineration generated numerous pollutants, including carbon monoxide and dioxin—the same chemical compound found in Agent Orange, the dangerous defoliant during the Vietnam War.
  — Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News, 7 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024