How to Use nerve agent in a Sentence

nerve agent

noun
  • There, medics found traces of the nerve agent in his system.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Police said the pair were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.
    Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
  • The nerve agent was produced in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
    Washington Post, 11 July 2018
  • Kim Jong Nam was poisoned in a Malaysian airport with a lethal nerve agent.
    Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Tests on Kim's eyes and face later revealed the presence of VX nerve agent.
    Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Some of those shells may still contain deadly nerve agents.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Tests confirmed that the couple were exposed to the same nerve agent that poisoned the Skripals.
    Casey Quackenbush, Time, 11 July 2018
  • The Russians have already used a weapons-grade nerve agent, Novichok.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Each rocket carries about 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) of the nerve agent.
    Dylan Lovan, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2023
  • Navalny was poisoned by a nerve agent in 2020 and later jailed.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Navalny blamed Putin for the attack on him using the nerve agent Novichok.
    Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • He has been poisoned by a nerve agent, by a chemical weapon.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent while on an airplane in 2020.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In addition to the Skripals, the nerve agent harmed three others who came in contact with it.
    NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In 2020, Navalny blamed Putin for poisoning him with a nerve agent.
    Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 2 Mar. 2022
  • That’s why prompt treatment is so important — and knowing that a nerve agent is to blame will help.
    Rachel Becker, The Verge, 4 July 2018
  • Aum Shinrikyo, which carried a nerve agent attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 18 July 2021
  • But Putin purposely used a nerve agent so there would be footprints leading all the way back to the Kremlin.
    CBS News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Police couldn’t say whether the four were all contaminated from the same batch of nerve agent.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
  • The procedure involves drawing a vile of blood from the patient to test for an enzyme that the nerve agent would attack in the body.
    Matt Button, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • In the ensuing days, public health officials raced against time to trace the lethal nerve agent that threatened the city.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The nerve agent is a cholinesterase inhibitor, part of the class of substances that doctors at Charite said last week had shown up in Navalny's system.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Britain has accused Russia of exposing them to a nerve agent.
    Ilan Ben Zion, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2018
  • Her station focused on a type of blood test done if someone is believed to have been exposed to a nerve agent.
    Matt Button, baltimoresun.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Britain says the nerve agent is Novichok, developed in the Soviet Union.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Uglev pointed out Novichok is in fact a group of four nerve agents, each named after the year they were created.
    Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The regime had tried to kill him before, once poisoning him with a weapons-grade nerve agent that left Navalny comatose for weeks.
    Simon Shuster / Vilnius, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Tests showed that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent, Novichok.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2020
  • He and his daughter in 2018 were nearly killed in Britain by nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russian agents.
    Eric Tucker, arkansasonline.com, 2 Aug. 2024
  • He was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in August 2020 and went to Germany to convalesce.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2022

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