How to Use lethal in a Sentence

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• He was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
• The duo, combined with Ashley Sanchez, proved lethal but could not find the goal in the first 45 minutes.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• What if the world’s most powerful — and lethal — AI being took the form of a wide-eyed 5-year-old?
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• The defense insists there is no proof their client gave her husband the lethal dose.
  — Camila Bernal, CNN, 12 June 2023
• One of the most lethal hazards in a winter landscape might come as a surprise: rain.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• Smith opted for lethal gas instead, even though the process had not yet been tested.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• There’s a rather surprising and very lethal threat stampeding from the south.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• Six weeks later the RSF dispersed the protesters with lethal force, killing more than 100.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
• With his running mate, guard Jamal Murray, the Nuggets have a lethal pick-and-roll tandem.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
• Even more lethal were the germs that outsiders brought, to which the islanders had no immunity.
  — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• Most of the fake pills seized off the streets nowadays contain a potentially lethal amount of fentanyl, the DEA said.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023
• The devices emit carbon monoxide, which is a poisonous gas that can be lethal.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• In his prime, Graham was a lethal red zone weapon, thanks to his size (6-foot-7) and leaping ability.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• With suicide by a highly lethal method there is almost never a chance to go back.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Receive a lethal dose, and your body initially seems not to notice.
  — Asher Elbein, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• In another unit, lethal fights with baseball bats broke out.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• But the least conspicuous piece of luggage — a crate for a cat — was part of an elaborate, lethal plot.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Twenty — or five times the lethal dose — is not accidental.
  — CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Image Image To the north near Kharkiv, six miles from the front line, residents live in range of Russia’s lethal artillery.
  — Emile Ducke Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• The syringe was sent out for testing by the FBI, and months later, it was revealed to contain a lethal dose of liquid nicotine.
  — Cameron Rubner, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
• At the time, the governor's office claimed there was a lack of access to certain drugs used for lethal injection.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
• One week in April this year, there were three deaths and 11 overdoses in Mat-Su from a lethal batch of drugs that likely contained fentanyl.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
• Barnes, 61, will die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. local time at the Florida State Prison in Starke.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Every hit is lethal — a single head stomp or arrow strike kills, and the rounds end when there’s only one (or none) left standing.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• Schedule 1 drugs do not have any medical use, and are highly lethal.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 25 May 2023
• At times, the Sacramento River water downstream from Shasta Dam has warmed to a point that is lethal for salmon eggs.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• These units are designed to be smaller, lighter, more mobile — and, their leaders argue, more lethal.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• And the impacts are expected to get worse as heat waves become more frequent, intense and lethal due to the climate crisis.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• The execution would be the first attempt to use a new method since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.
  — Kim Chandler, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• The authors also did not observe disputes that led to the lethal aggression that has been observed in chimpanzees.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024