How to Use poison gas in a Sentence

poison gas

noun

• The worst elil is man, riding in his hrududu, coming with his traps and snares, his poison gas.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• Ironically, the Germans had known all along about the source of the poison gas in the harbor.
  — Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The poison gas caused intense pain, blindness, and the feeling of being strangled.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
• And doomed men at that, English soldiers stuck in a trench about to be doused in poison gas, and overrun by German soldiers.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• The air strikes were launched against three targets, each involved in Syria’s poison gas program.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2018
• For the first time, Allied forces on the Western front experienced poison gas.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2022
• Yet even now, as office space expands like poison gas into our homes, we’re still drawn back to the mothership.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022
• Regime and Russian war crimes have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, whose death by barrel bombs and poison gas can be viewed on YouTube.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
• Prussic acid is a leading ingredient in the new poison gas, which is being used by both the Germans and the allies in shells.
  — Johnny Miller, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• This slice of the Ypres Salient hosted three major battles, including the one where German forces first used poison gas against the Allies.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• Day by day our comrades are still dying from the effects of wounds, poison gas and disease contracted in the service of our country.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021
• Guards subjected torture victims to electric shocks, doused them with poison gas and burned them.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• Bashar Assad, accused of using poison gas again on his own people.
  — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2018
• The group, which put the death toll at more than 40, said many residents were hiding in cellars, suffocating from poison gas.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2018
• Soldiers are welcomed back in the nearby town, some now maimed or weakened by poison gas exposure.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
• This was the second strike against Syria in a little over a year, in response to the second alleged use by the government of a poison gas against its citizens.
  — Author: Louisa Loveluck, Liz Sly, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2018
• On Sunday, 14 people were killed, including an infant who was allegedly killed in a poison gas attack on the town of Sheifouniyeh.
  — Jamey Keaten, The Seattle Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• His task was to develop poison gases—first mustard gas, then an even nastier brew called lewisite.
  — Steven Shapin, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• Despite advances like the use of poison gas and armored tanks, both sides were trapped in trench warfare that claimed enormous numbers of casualties.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
• One tense predicament replaces another, from poison gas attacks to mutinous passengers to orders to kill the co-pilot or shoot down the plane.
  — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• One Kurdish journalist who helped document Iraqi Jewish sites had to flee a poison gas attack.
  — Dara Horn, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
• The 14 people killed in eastern Ghouta on Sunday included an infant who was allegedly killed in a poison gas attack on the town of Sheifouniyeh.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Iraq uses poison gas against the Kurdish people in Halabja in Northern Iraq.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
• A day later, the rebels in the town surrendered, making the use of chemical weapons in this instance, if confirmed, an example of the successful tactical use of poison gas, Azm said.
  — Author: Louisa Loveluck, Liz Sly, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Apr. 2018
• The Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult faced a dissolution measure following its poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
  — TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
• Whoever may have been responsible originally for the resort to poison gas, there is little doubt that both the Germans and the allies are now using it.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
• Although badly scarred by poison gas on the battlefield, Judah has returned from Europe and attained a degree of power and wealth on the illicit streets of New Orleans.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
• To call something a violation of human rights—for instance, Bashar al-Assad’s use of poison gas on his own citizens—is implicitly to call on the world to do something about it.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• London and its allies are understood to want the OPCW to begin apportioning blame for chemical attacks, in a move toward ending impunity for the use of poison gas and nerve agents.
  — Mike Corder, Fox News, 1 June 2018
• Specific species of nematode can pierce the fungal hyphae to suck out the cytoplasm, so having toxocysts that emit poison gas on the hyphae could protect the fungus from such predators.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2023

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